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in  jttemotfam. 


'MEMORIAL  SERVICES 


IN   HONOR  OF 


JAMES  ABRAM  GARFIELD, 

present  of  tfce 


HELD  AT  SEA, 
ON     THE    CUNARD     STEAMSHIP    "SCYTHIA," 

SEPTEMBER  26,  1881. 


HON.  MARCUS   P.  NORTON, 

OF  NEW  YORK  AND   BOSTON, 

CHAIRMAN. 

LEWIS   C  LILLIE, 

OF  NEW   YORK   AND   BOSTON, 

SECRETARY. 


Second 


BOSTON: 
FRANKLIN  PRESS:   RAND,  AVERY,  &  CO. 

1882. 


AUTHORS    NOTE. 


OF  the  first  edition  of  the  book,  —  giving  an 
account  of  the  "  MEMORIAL  SERVICES  "  held  at  sea  on 
the  twenty-sixth  day  of  September,  1881,  in  honor 
of  JAMES  ABRAM  GARFIELD,  the  assassinated  Presi- 
dent,—  there  were  twelve  hundred  copies  printed. 
One  thousand  copies  of  that  edition  were  forwarded 
to  those  persons  who  subscribed  for  the  same  while 
passengers  on  board  the  CUNARD  Steamship  "  SCYTHIA," 
in  the  main  saloon  of  which  those  impressive  and 
interesting  services  were  held. 

1  have  thought  it  best  to  issue  another  edition 
in  order  to  supply  the  demand.  There  have  been 
a  very  few  verbal  changes  made  in  some  of  the 
Addresses,  especially  so  in  that  by  the  CHAIRMAN, 
which  was  written  in  a  hurried  manner,  just  before 
the  assembling  of  the  passengers  in  the  MAIN  SA- 
LOON at  2  o'clock  afternoon  of  the  same  day. 


During  that  writing  the  winds  were  very  strong,  and 
the  great  ship  was  rocking  about  on  the  waves  of 
an  angry  sea  —  hence  I  have  felt  justified  in  mak- 
ing corrections  in  that  address,  and  in  giving  to 
others  an  opportunity  to  make  such  corrections  in 
their  addresses,  respectively,  as  they  might  desire. 

Both  editions  have  been  issued  without  any  com- 
pensation in  money  or  of  property  value,  or  the  hope 
of  any,  from  any  source  whatever.  If  this  little  vol- 
ume shall  be  of  use  or  benefit  to  any  one,  and  carry 
with  it  honorable  remembrances  and  kindly  feelings 
through  the  coming  years,  and  serve  in  some  degree 
to  perpetuate  in  the  hearts  of  the  living  the  hon- 
ored name,  as  well  as  the  honorable  life,  of  the  great 
and  illustrious  dead,  whose  earthly  life  was  closed  at 
ELBERON,  in  New  Jersey,  in  the  month  of  September, 
A.D.  1881,  by  a  fatal  wound  received  at  the  hands 
of  an  assassin  in  the  capital  of  the  American  Union 
on  the  second  day  of  July,  1881,  at  a  railway  sta- 
tion, I  shall  be  glad,  and  more  than  compensated 
for  all  the  time,  care,  and  expense  of  it. 

MARCUS  P.   NORTON. 
BOSTON,  MASS.,  June  14,  1882. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGB 

PROCLAMATION  by  President  ARTHUR 7 

NOTICE  of  Memorial  Services  to  be  held  on  board  the  Steamship 

"  SCYTHIA,"  at  SEA 8 

Appointment  of  CHAIRMAN  to  preside  at  the  "  MEMORIAL  SER- 
VICES"  '.9 

HON.  MARCUS  P.  NORTON,  of  New  York  and  Boston,  elected 

CHAIRMAN  ..........  9 

HYMN,  "  Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee  " 10 

PRAYER  by  REV.  JAMES  M.  KING,  D.D.,  of  New  York,  N.Y.  .  11 
THE  ORDER  of  the  Addresses  made  at  "  Memorial  Services  "  in 

the  "MAIN  SALOON"  of  the  " SCYTHIA"     .        .        .        .11 

JAMES  A.  GARFIELD'S  Record  in  Brief :  a  Convenient  Summary,     13 
Assassination  of  President  GARFIELD  ......     14 

"  BURIAL  SERVICES,"  solemnized  at  the  City  of  Cleveland,  Ohio, 

Sept.  26,  1881  .  .  .  . 14 

Address  of  HON.  MARCUS  P.  NORTON,  Chairman,  at  "MEMORIAL 

SERVICES  "  on  the  "  SCYTHIA,"  at  SEA,  Sept.  26,  1881  .  17-37 
Address  of  Judge  CHARLES  A.  PEABODY,  of  New  York  City,  41-47 
Address  of  Rev.  H.  N.  McTYEiRE,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  BISHOP 

of  "  The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South  "  .  .  .  51-55 
Address  of  Judge  U.  M.  ROSE,  of  Little  Rock,  Ark.  .  .  59-62 
Address  of  Judge  EDWARD  H.  EAST,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.  .  65-68 
Address  by  Rev.  Father  M.  J.  MASTERSON,  of  Catholic  Church  at 

Peabody,  Mass 71-72 

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PAGE 

Address  of  General  CYRUS  BUSSEY,  President  of  the  "  New  Orleans 

Chamber  of  Commerce"  New  Orleans,  La.  .  .  .  75-83 

RESOLUTIONS  concerning  the  Assassination  of  President  GAR- 
FIELD,  expressing  Profound  Sympathy  with  MRS.  GARFIELD 
and  FAMILY 81 

RESOLUTIONS  by  General  BUSSEY,  seconded  by  HON.  F.  A. 

WARD,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  in  appropriate  Address  .  .  83 

Announcement  of  "  National  Hymn"  "  My  Country  !  'tis  of  Thee" 
by  REV.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  New  York  .  83 

NATIONAL  HYMN,  "  My  Country  !  'tis  of  Thee  "   .         .         .         .84 

SECRETARY'S  Memorandum  concerning  the  Address  of  HON. 

AUGUSTUS  BELMONT,  of  New  York  City  .  .  .  .85 

Secretary's  Memorandum  concerning  the  Address  of  HON.  F.  A. 

WARD,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y 85 

MOTION  for  Adjournment  sine  die,  by  REV.  DR.  JOHN  P.  NEW- 
MAN   11,  85 

ADJOURNMENT     ........        .        .85 

LIST  of  SALOON  PASSENGERS  on  board  of  The  ROYAL  MAIL 
Steamship  "  SCYTHIA,"  on  the  twenty-sixth  day  of  September, 
A.D.  1881,  at  SEA 89 


Jllcmorial  0erwce0. 


IN  compliance  with  the  following  proclamation 
and  notice,  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  passen- 
gers, representing  Europe  and  America,  assembled  at 
two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  Sept.  26,  1881,  in 
the  main  SALOON  of  the  steamship  "  Scythia,"  which 
was  appropriately  draped  and  arranged  for  the  solemn 
occasion :  — 

By  the  President  of  the  United  States  of  America : 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

Wliereas,  In  his  inscrutable  wisdom,  it  has  pleased  God  to 
remove  from  us  the  illustrious  head  of  the  nation,  JAMES  A. 
GARFIELD,  late  President  of  the  United  States  ;  and 

Wliereas,  It  is  fitting  that  the  deep  grief  which  fills  all 
hearts  should  manifest  itself  with  one  accord  toward  the  throne 
of  Infinite  Grace,  and  that  we  should  bow  before  the  Almighty 
and  seek  from  him  that  consolation  in  our  affliction  and  that 
sanctification  of  our  loss  which  he  is  able  and  willing  to  vouch- 


Now,  therefore,  in  obedience  to  sacred  duty,  and  in  accord- 

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ance  with  the  desire  of  the  people,  I,  CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR, 
President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  do  hereby  appoint 
Monday  next,  the  twenty-sixth  day  of  September,  on  which 
day  the  remains  of  our  honored  and  beloved  dead  will  be  con- 
signed to  their  last  resting-place  on  earth,  to  be  observed 
throughout  the  United  States  as  a  day  of  humiliation  and 
mourning  ;  and  I  earnestly  recommend  all  the  people  to  assem- 
ble on  that  day  in  their  respective  places  of  divine  worship, 
there  to  render  alike  their  tribute  of  sorrowful  submission  to 
the  will  of  Almighty  God,  and  of  reverence  and  love  for  the 
memory  and  character  of  our  late  chief  magistrate. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand,  and  caused 
the  seal  of  the  United  States  to  be  affixed. 

Done  at  the  city  of  Washington,  the  twenty-second  day  of 
September,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1881,  and  of  the  independ- 
ence of  the  United  States  the  one  hundred  and  sixth. 

CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR. 
By  the  President : 

[SEAL.]     JAMES  G.  ELAINE,  Secretary  of  State. 

NOTICE. 

"  Capt.  MURPHY,  in  command  of  the  steamship  '  SCYTHIA,' 
having  kindly  and  generously  consented,  notice  is  hereby  given 
to  all  persons  on  board  this  steamship,  that,  in  compliance 
with  the  proclamation  of  his  Excellency  CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR, 
President  of  the  United  States  of  America,  dated  the  twenty- 
second  day  of  September,  A.D.  1881,  and  also  in  conformity 
to  the  known  wishes  of  a  very  large  number  of  passengers 
now  on  shipboard,  MEMORIAL  SERVICES  will  be  held  at  two 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  to-day  in  the  main  saloon  of  the 
4  SCYTHIA,'  in  honor  and  to  the  memory  of  JAMES  A.  GARFIELD, 


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late  President  of  said  United  States,  who,  after  a  long,  painful, 
and  heroic  struggle  for  health  and  for  life,  died  in  the  seventh 
month  of  the  first  year  of  his  presidential  term  of  a  fatal 
wound  received  at  the  hands  of  an  assassin  in  the  capital  of 
his  country  on  the  morning  of  the  second  day  of  July,  A.D. 
1881. 

' '  All  persons  are  invited  to  be  present  on  the  occasion  here- 
inbefore stated,  and  to  take  part  in  such  proceedings  as  shall 
then  and  there  be  deemed  proper  while  a  great  nation  is  in 
mourning." 

At  the  appointed  hour,  and  amid  the  deepest 
silence,  the  Rev.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of 
New  York,  said,  — 

As  this  day  has  been  designated  by  President 
ARTHUR  to  be  observed  with  fitting  religious  and 
civic  services  expressive  of  our  great  loss  in  the  sad 
death  of  Gen.  JAMES  A.  GARFIELD,  it  is  eminently 
proper  that  we  should  gather  here  in  mid-ocean, 
and  unite  with  our  countrymen  at  home  and  in  all 
lands  in  paying  a  tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory 
of  the  illustrious  dead,  and  in  offering  our  prayers  to 
Almighty  God  for  the  bereaved  family,  and  for  our 
stricken  but  still  beloved  country.  I  have  therefore, 
on  the  part  of  your  committee,  the  pleasure  and  the 
honor  to  announce  as  chairman  for  this  memorable 
occasion  the  Hon.  MARCUS  P.  NORTON,  of  New  York, 
who  will  now  take  the  chair. 

The  impressive  services  were  commenced  with  the 
well-known  hymn,  — 


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"NEARER,   MY   GOD,   TO   THEE." 

.   "  Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee ! 
E'en  though  it  be  a  cross 

That  raiseth  me ; 
Still,  all  my  song  shall  be,  — 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee ! 

"  Though,  like  the  wanderer, 

The  sun  gone  down, 
Darkness  be  over  me, 

My  rest  a  stone  ; 
Yet  in  my  dreams  I'd  be 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee ! 

"  There  let  the  way  appear 

Steps  unto  heaven ; 
All  that  thou  sendest  me 

In  mercy  given  ; 
Angels  to  beckon  me 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee ! 

"  Then  with  my  waking  thoughts, 

Bright  with  thy  praise, 
Out  of  my  stony  griefs 

Bethel  I'll  raise ; 
So  by  my  woes  to  be 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  thee, 

Nearer  to  thee  !  " 


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Mrs.  BOLTON  conducted  the  singing  of  this  hymn, 
and  played  the  HARMONIUM  in  a  very  effective  and 
solemn  manner. 

An  impressive  and  touching  prayer  was  then 
offered  by  the  Rev.  JAMES  M.  KING,  D.D.?  of  New 
York. 

Then  came  the  addresses  of  the  following-named 
gentlemen  in  the  succession  or  order  stated :  to  wit, — 

1.  Judge  MARCUS  P.  NORTON,  of  New  York,  N.Y. 

2.  Judge  CHARLES  A.  PEABODY,  of  New  York,  N.Y. 

3.  Bishop  H.  N.  McTYEiRE,  of  Nashville,  Tenn. 

4.  Judge  JOHN  L.  ROSE,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

5.  Judge  E.  H.  EAST,  of  Nashville,  Tenn. 

6.  Rev.  Father  M.  I.  MASTERSON,  of  Peabody,  Mass. 

7.  Hon.  AGUSTUS  BELMONT,  of  New  York,  N.Y. 

8.  Resolutions  offered  by  Gen.  CYRUS  BUSSEY,  President  of 
Board  of  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  New  Orleans,  La. 

9.  Resolutions  offered  by  Gen.  BUSSEY,  seconded  by  Hon. 
F.  A.  WARD,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

10.  Gen.  CYRUS  BUSSEY'S  Address  in  support  of  the  resolu- 
tions offered  by  him. 

11.  Address   by   Hon.   F.  A.  WARD,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y., 
upon  seconding  the  resolutions  offered  by  Gen.  BUSSEY. 

12.  Singing  of  the  hymn,  "  My  country,  'tis  of  thee,"  etc. 

13.  A  motion  by  Rev.  Dr.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN  for  adjourn- 
ment. 

14.  Announcement  by  the  Chairman  that  the  resolution  for 
adjournment  had  been  agreed  to. 

15.  Adjournment  sine  die. 


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A  RECORD  IN  BRIEF  OF  GENERAL  JAMES  A.  GAR- 
FIELD,— A   CONVENIENT   SUMMARY. 

At  14  he  was  at  work  at  a  carpenter's  bench. 

At  16  he  was  a  boatman  on  the  Ohio  canal. 

At  18  he  was  studying  in  the  Chester  (Ohio)  Seminary. 

At  21  he  was  teaching  in  one  of  Ohio's  common  schools, 
pushing  forward  with  his  own  studies  at  the  same  time. 

At  23  he  entered  Williams  College. 

At  26  he  graduated  from  Williams  with  the  highest  honors 
of  his  class. 

At  27  he  was  tutor  at  Hiram  College,  Ohio. 

At  28  he  was  principal  of  Hiram  College. 

At  29  he  was  a  member  of  the  Ohio  Senate,  — the  youngest 
member  of  that  body. 

At  30  he  was  Colonel  of  the  42d  Ohio  Regiment. 

At  31  he  was  placed  in  command  of  a  brigade,  routed  the 
Confederates  under  Humphrey  Marshall,  helped  Gen.  Buell  in 
his  fight  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  played  a  prominent  part  in  the 
siege  of  Corinth  and  in  the  important  movements  along  the 
Memphis  and  Charleston  Railroad. 

At  32  he  was  appointed  chief  of  staff  of  the  Army  of  the 
Cumberland,  participated  in  the  campaign  in  Middle  Tennessee 
and  in  the  notable  battle  of  Chickamauga,  and  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Major-General  for  gallant  conduct  and  valuable 
services  upon  the  battle-field. 

At  33  he  was  in  Congress,  the  successor  of  Joshua  R.  Gid- 
dings  deceased. 

At  48,  having  been  continued  in  Congress  since  he  was  33, 
a  period  of  about  eighteen  years,  he  was  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate. 

At  49  he  was  nominated  for  the  Presidency  of  the  United 


States  by  the  National  Convention  of  the  Republican  party, 
held  at  the  city  of  Chicago,  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  in  the 
summer  of  1880. 

At  50  he  was  elected  President,  and  inaugurated  at  the  city 
of  Washington  at  12  o'clock  noon  of  the  fourth  day  of  March, 
1881  ;  and  July  2,  1881,  was  shot  by  GUITEAU,  in  the  "Balti- 
more and  Potomac  Railroad  Depot,"  in  the  city  of  Washington, 
—  the  CAPITAL,  —  who  inflicted  a  dangerous  wound,  which, 
after  great  suffering,  proved  to  be  a  fatal  one. 

Sept.  19,  1881,  President  GARFIELD  died  at  ELBERON,  Long 
Branch,  State  of  New  Jersey,  of  the  fatal  wound  received 
from  the  assassin  GUITEAU' s  pistol. 

Sept.  20,  1881,  the  deceased  PRESIDENT  was  removed  from 
Elberon  to  the  ROTUNDA  in  the  CAPITOL  at  Washington. 

Sept.  23,  1881,  his  remains  were  removed  from  Washington 
to  the  city  of  Cleveland,  OHIO,  preparatory  for  burial  services. 

Sept.  26,  1881,  BURIAL  SERVICES  were  held  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  near  MENTOR,  his  rural  home ;  and  on  the  same  day  the 
dead  President  was  committed  to  a  VAULT  in  LAKE  VIEW 
Cemetery,  near  by  the  city  of  Cleveland. 


ADDRESS 

OP 

HOK   IAKCUS  P,   NORTON. 

OFFICE  ADDRESS: 

Nos.  6  AND  7  BOWDOIN  SQUARE, 

BOSTON,  MASS. 

CHAIRMAN  UPON  THE  OCCASION  OF  "  MEMORIAL  SERVICES,' 

HELD  AT  SEA,  ON  THE  CUNARD  STEAMSHIP 

"  SCYTHIA,"  SEPTEMBER  26,  1881, 

IN  HONOR  OF 

JAMES    ABEAM    GAEFIELD, 

€l]t  Ctocntictfj  $rc0i&cnt  of  t&e  SlniteU  States. 


ADDRESS. 


LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN,  —  Called  as  I  have  been 
by  your  politeness  and  kindness  to  preside  over  your 
deliberations  on  this  sad  occasion,  I  have  to  thank 
you,  and  shall  hope  at  least  to  meet  your  wishes  in 
conducting  your  proceedings,  and  in  executing  the 
duties  you  have  assigned  to  me  at  this  time  upon 
this  beautiful  steamship  making  her  voyage  so  well 
and  successfully  over  the  great  and  troubled  deep 
from  England  to  America. 

The  eyes  of  the  great  Kepublic  and  those  of  every 
civilized  nation  upon  the  earth  are  to-day  turned 
towards  the  city  of  Cleveland,  in  Ohio,  where  the 
solemn  and  impressive  services  of  the  Church  are 
being  pronounced  over  all  that  remains  on  the  earth 
of  Gen.  JAMES  A.  GARFIELD,  the  twentieth  President 
of  the  United  States. 

Born  in  the  humble  walks  of  life  —  by  a  praise- 
worthy ambition,  backed  by  an  energetic  industry ;  by 
sound  common-sense,  and  by  honesty  and  uprightness 
in  his  life  and  in  his  manner  of  living  —  he  obtained 

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a  thorough  education ;  became  master  of  the  sciences 
and  of  the  languages ;  well  read  in  the  history  of  the 
world,  and,  forcing  his  way  onward  in  life's  great 
highway,  he  surmounted  all  obstacles  before  him  (and 
they  were  many),  and  came  to  the  head  and  full 
command  of  one  of  the  divisions  of  the  armies  of  the 
Republic  he  loved  so  well,  bearing  the  emblems  and 
having  the  authority  of  a  major-general  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  United  States,  by  virtue  of  a  commission 
issued  by  the  War  Department  and  signed  by  the 
immortal  Lincoln.  Still  onward  and  onward  he 
made  his  course  in  life's  toilsome  way ;  and  while  he 
held  the  great  commission  of  a  major-general,  his 
constituency  elected  him  to  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States  by  large  and  overwhelming  majorities  ; 
and  while  the  nation  and  the  union  of  States  were 
still  in  imminent  danger,  in  the  midst  of  a  great, 
aye,  the  most  gigantic,  civil  war  ever  upon  the 
earth,  —  a  war  largely  demanding  the  sacrifice  of 
life  and  of  property,  and  requiring  unexampled 
expenditures  of  the  people's  money  to  save  that 
Union,  the  Republic,  and  the  Constitution  from  the 
hands  of  disunion  and  rebellion,  —  he  entered  the 
House  of  Representatives  of  the  American  Congress, 
and  there,  through  a  succession  of  elections  by  the 
people  of  his  native  State,  for  eighteen  years  faith- 
fully and  fearlessly  defended  the  right ;  aye,  in  those 


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years  he  gallantly  and  patriotically  defended  his  im- 
perilled country,  her  flag,  and  her  Constitution,  both 
in  war  and  in  peace,  and  did  much  to  preserve  the 
integrity  and  to  maintain  the  prosperity,  and  to 
advance  the  glory  of  the  arms  of  the  United  States 
of  America  as  one  undivided  and  inseparable  union 
of  States. 

While  in  Congress  he  was  ever  and  firmly  on  the 
side  of  the  largest  liberty.  He  was  true  to  his 
country,  to  its  flag,  and  to  its  government.  So,  also, 
he  was  faithful  and  true  to  the  people,  whether  rich 
or  poor,  and  he  always  gave  a  helping  hand  to  those 
struggling  to  obtain  their  rights.  So  much  was  he 
loved  and  admired  by  those  with  whom  he  associated 
in  Congress,  that  he  soon  became  a  distinguished 
leader  in  his  party  there,  which  he  maintained  invio- 
late through  those  long  years  of  anxious  and  trouble- 
some times,  until  from  the  House  of  Representatives 
he  went  to  the  UNITED  STATES  SENATE,  by  a  very 
decided  majority-vote  of  the  Legislature  of  OHIO,  his 
native  State. 

While  he  was  Ohio's  chosen  SENATOR  in  the  na- 
tion's great  Legislature,  he  was  nominated  by  his 
party  at  Chicago,  in  1880,  for  the  Presidential  office, 
and  being  in  November  of  that  year  triumphantly 
elected  by  the  people,  he  was  subsequently  sworn 
into  that  high  office;  and  thereupon,  at  twelve  o'clock, 


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noon,  on  the  fourth  day  of  March,  1881,  at  the  Capi- 
tal of  a  great  and  prosperous  nation,  he  became  the 
twentieth  President  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
amid  the  ringing  of  bells,  the  firing  of  cannon,  and 
the  exulting  joy  and  universal  thanksgivings  of  the 
American  people. 

He  commenced  his  administration  in  the  midst  of 
very  bright,  favorable,  and  most  beautiful  auspices. 
Peace  prevailed  in  each  and  all  of  the  States. 
The  Union  had  been  permanently  re-established. 
The  Great  Eepublic  was  resting  on  solid  rock.  The 
American  charter  of  human  liberty  —  the  Consti- 
tution —  had  been  enlarged  and  sustained.  The 
people  in  every  part  of  our  country  were  pursuing 
peaceful  ways.  Lasting  prosperity  was  spread  out 
before  them  on  every  hand,  Men  of  all  political 
parties,  of  all  church  creeds,  of  professional  life,  of 
mechanical,  of  commercial,  and  of  agricultural  pur- 
suits, seemed  to  vie  with  each  other,  and  to  be  well 
pleased  with  home,  and  satisfied  with  their  country 
and  its  government.  The  great  nation  stood  forth 
in  all  her  beauty,  in  her  grandeur,  and  in  her  mighty 
power.  From  every  mountain  top,  from  every  hill- 
side, and  from  every  valley  there  went  up  to  heaven 
—  to  God  —  one  grand  and  universal  song  of  joy 
and  gladness,  in  that  a  new  era  of  peace,  of  purity, 
and  of  prosperity,  in  and  for  the  whole  country,  North 


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and  South,  East  and  West,  had  been  thus  so  well 
inaugurated,  and  the  people  everywhere  in  all  the 
States  of  the  American  Republic  rejoiced,  and  hap- 
pily exclaimed  —  AMEN  ! 

He  had  not  gone  far  in  the  presidential  office  to 
which  he  had  thus  been  elected  and  inaugurated  and 
commissioned  to  fill  for  four  years  by  the  people, 
when  lo  !  on  one  beautiful  morning,  —  the  closing 
day  of  the  week,  —  when  on  his  way  in  a  peaceful, 
lawful,  and  rightful  manner  to  pay  a  visit  of  love 
and  loyal  devotion  to  his  excellent  and  noble  wife, 
—  who  but  a  few  short  days  before  had  arisen  from 
a  long  and  dangerous  illness  at  the  executive  man- 
sion, and  had  gone  to  obtain  renewed  health  and 
strength  from  the  sea-air  at  Long  Branch,  —  he,  the 
lawful  and  exalted  President  of  a  great,  a  peaceful, 
and  yet  powerful  nation,  was  shot  down  in  blood 
and  fatal  wound  by  a  cowardly  assassin,  at  a  railway- 
station  in  the  capital  of  his  country,  and  near  unto 
the  very  shadow  of  the  executive  mansion  he  had 
but  a  few  moments  before  left  so  full  of  hope,  of 
happiness,  and  glowing  health. 

For  nearly  three  months  of  intense  pain  and  agony 
of  suffering,  —  and  with  the  aid  of  the  very  best  of 
physicians  and  surgeons  that  could  be  produced  in 
the  United  States, — he  manfully,  patiently,  and  most 
bravely  struggled  against  a  fatal  wound  for  recovery 


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and  for  life.  But  it  was  not  in  the  power  of  those 
learned  and  eminent  physicians,  aided  as  they  were 
at  all  times  by  the  devotion,  the  immediate  pres- 
ence, and  the  constant  care  of  his  brave  and  ever- 
faithful  wife,  —  his  true  —  his  heroic  wife.  For  at 
last,  when  believing  him  to  be  somewhat  improving, 
and  all  had  gone  to  a  night's  repose  —  doctors,  wife, 
and  all  —  save  his  trusted  and  faithful  friend-attend- 
ants, there,  in  the  silent  watches  of  that  night,  he 
suddenly  awoke  from  that  which  had  been  pro- 
nounced by  attendants  and  doctors  to  be  a  quiet 
sleep,  and  reaching  forth  his  weak  and  trembling 
hand,  made  his  last  audible  prayer  upon  the  earth, 
and  it  was,  "  Oh,  this  is  terrible  pain !  Swaim,  can 
you  not  do  something  for  me  ?  Oh,  SWAIM  !  "  With 
this,  his  agonizing  prayer,  just  spoken  by  him,  he 
came  to  the  margin  of  the  narrow  river,  and,  cross 
ing  over,  completed  the  journey  of  life.  In  the  still 
and  solemn  hours  of  the  night  he  parted  from  wife 
and  their  loved  children  ;  from  his  aged  mother, 
whom  he  saluted  with  an  affectionate  kiss  at  his 
inauguration  ;  from  everybody,  aye,  from  earth  it- 
self, he  took  an  untimely  departing ;  and  paying  a 
long  farewell  to  all  —  and  to  life  upon  the  earth  — 
vacated  the  presidential  chair.  Yes,  in  those  silent 
hours  of  that  ever-to-be-remembered  night  he  quietly 
drew  about  himself  the  drapery  of  his  couch,  and, 


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without  uttering  another  word  after  his  fervent  prayer 
for  help,  passed  out  and  into  the  dark  valley,  —  into 
the  shadow  of  death  ;  and  very  soon  thereafter  that 
eminent  physician  and  surgeon,  Dr.  BLISS,  announced 
to  those  there,  and  to  all  the  world,  "It  is  over.  He 
is  dead !  "  Garfield  dead  I  Yes  ;  and  oh,  how  great 
the  havoc  that  death  hath  wrought ! 

To-day  our  great  nation  is  in  tears  at  the  grave  of 
its  illustrious  dead.  She  is  heavily  dressed  in  mourn- 
ing :  for  in  every  State,  in  every  city,  village,  and 
hamlet  of  that  prosperous  country,  her  beautiful  and 
honored  flag  is  flying  at  half-mast;  while  upon  all 
her  public  buildings,  and  upon  all  the  public  build- 
ings of  the  thirty-seven  States  and  eleven  Territories 
of  the  Union,  as  well  as  upon  thousands  and  thou- 
sands of  homes  in  all  parts  of  the  land,  among  the 
rich  and  among  the  poor,  may  at  this  hour  be  seen 
the  emblems  of  sorrow,  —  real,  deep  sorrow.  And 
there,  too,  may  be  seen  the  tears  of  universal  grief 
because  their  great  chief  and  leader  has  fallen  in 
death  by  the  assassin,  and  at  this  time  is  being  con- 
veyed to  the  narrow  subterraneous  cavern  of  earth,  to 
dwell  among  the  dead  until  that  day  when,  with  one 
foot  upon  the  sea  and  the  other  upon  the  land,  the 
angel  of  the  Lord  our  God  shall  proclaim  time  to  be 
no  more. 

How  grand,  how  beautiful,  and  how  brave  he  was 


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on  the  shores  of  the  great  ocean  at  Long  Branch  in 
the  midst  of  the  most  intense  suffering  and  physical 
weakness,  when,  day  after  day,  his  stout  and  manly 
form  wasted  away  like  as  the  summer's  sun  and  heat 
take  away  the  waters  of  forest  lands,  of  rivers,  and  of 
the  sea.  There  he  looked  out  upon  the  blue  waves 
of  the  mighty  deep,  with  his  loving  wife  still  side  by 
side  with  him,  while  she  silently  watched  the  ebbing 
and  flowing  of  the  tide  of  human  life.  Thus  situ- 
ated, he  takes  her  by  the  hand,  and  exclaims,  "  This 
—  this  is  glorious,  CRETE  ! "  and  then  and  there  this 
great  man  made  another  effort  for  the  mastery  over 
death  and  the  grave.  In  that  struggle  he  forgot 
neither  the  beautiful  in  nature  nor  the  love  of  a  de- 
voted wife,  or  of  noble  children,  or  of  an  aged  and 
loving  mother ;  or  of  home,  or  of  his  country  and  the 
American  people,  whose  great  and  honored  President 
he  was.  That  outlooking  of  his  upon  the  face  of  the 
ocean  whose  waters  separate  vast  empires,  kingdoms, 
and  republics  from  our  great  American  Union  of  Ee- 
publican  States,  and  the  life-effort  of  his,  and  those 
words  of  good  cheer,  were  almost  the  last  with  him  ; 
for  he  was  far  nearer  the  dividing  line  that  separates 
earth's  flying  years  from  that  beautiful  land  along 
whose  shores  falls  that  heavenly  light  which  cometh 
from  the  sun  of  an  everlasting  righteousness. 

From  a  scene  like  this  we  stand  back  in  wonderful 


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amazement.  We  look  again,  and  this  illustrious  son 
of  America  has  gone,  —  gone  to  his  eternal  rest,  to 
an  everlasting  peace,  and  to  an  heavenly  reward  ; 
and,  after  life's  fitful  dream,  he  sleeps,  and  sleeps 
well.  The  battle  of  life  has  been  fought,  and  a 
brilliant  and  abiding  victory  won  by  him.  In  a  calm 
and  quiet  peace  let  him  rest.  . 

"  Death  makes  no  conquest  of  the  conqueror, 
For  now  he  lives  in  fame,  though  not  in  life." 

To-day  his  eyes,  glazed  and  dimmed  by  the  hand 
of  death,  see  not  the  gathering  throng  of  his  country- 
men, as  in  solemn  procession  they  come  near  the 
family  home  to  aid  in  the  sad  business  of  placing  him 
in  final  rest  and  in  the  quiet  and  undisturbed  peace 
of  the  grave.  His  ears,  heavily  laden  in  the  stillness 
of  the  hour,  hear  not  the  foot-falls  in  the  sanctuary 
to-day  —  in  that  far  away  beautiful  city  in  our  native 
land  —  of  loving  ones,  of  devoted  friends,  or  of  his 
loyal,  weeping  countrymen.  Oh,  no !  for  it  is  a  sad 
hour  to  mother,  to  wife,  to  children,  and  to  friends ; 
for  the  last  great  enemy  of  man  hath  come  and  made 
desolate  a  beautiful  and  a  happy  home,  extinguished 
forever  a  great  and  brilliant  light,  and  put  a  great 
nation  into  mourning. 

The  flowers  of  spring-time  and  of  summer  hours 
are  passing  away,  and  the  frosts  of  winter  are  now 


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approaching.  These,  all  these,  and  all  things  else  of 
earth,  shall  come  and  go  through  the  coming  cen- 
turies ;  but,  my  countrymen,  and  citizens  of  other 
nations,  now  and  here  assembled,  I  beg  to  remind 
you  that  beyond  all  doubt  the  name  of  GARFIELD  will 
ever  live  and  be  honored  at  home  and  in  other  lands. 
It  is  imperishable,  because  it  is  immortal. 

Peacefully  shall  rest  this  great  man,  lifted  as  he 
was  from  an  humble  station  in  life  to  the  very  high- 
est and  most  exalted  in  the  gift  of  a  great  and  gen- 
erous people ;  and  from  the  North,  from  the  South, 
from  the  East,  and  from  the  West,  through  all  time, 
shall  come  those  of  our  countrymen  to  place  flowers 
around  and  upon  his  grave ;  and  there  —  in  grateful 
recollection  of  his  grand  and  beautiful  home-life,  of 
his  manly  virtues,  of  his  loyal  devotion  to  his  coun- 
try, of  his  generous  care  for  the  poor  and  those  strug- 
gling for  their  natural  and  their  lawful  rights,  and 
for  his  every  good  quality  of  head  and  heart  —  pay 
tribute  to  his  memory,  while  unbidden  and  almost 
unconsciously  shall  fall  burning  tears  of  attachment, 
of  admiration,  and  of  love.  Aye,  the  Union,  the 
country,  and  its  government  he  so  much  loved  and  so 
well  served  ;  which  he  so  greatly  honored,  and  in 
whose  best  interests  he  gave  up  his  life,  shall,  at  a 
time  not  far  away,  erect  a  monument  to  his  mem- 
ory more  lasting  and  enduring  than  brass,  to  mark 


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the  place  where  sleeps  in  death  the  second  martyred 
President  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

His  features  shall  be  chiselled  in  marble,  they 
shall  be  cast  in  bronze,  and  delineated  upon  the  can- 
vas. In  the  public  parks  and  gardens  of  the  nation ; 
in  her  chosen  halls  and  in  her  libraries,  the  marble, 
the  bronze,  and  the  well-made  painting,  —  showing 
the  face  and  the  form  of  this  great  scholar,  general, 
representative,  senator,  president,  and  statesman,  and, 
above  all,  an  honest  man ;  aye,  higher  still,  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman,  —  shall  be  placed  by  a  loving  and 
generous  people ;  so  that,  all  those  who  shall  come 
in  the  long  succession  of  generations  yet  to  be  may 
see  thus  represented  he  whom  the  historian  then 
shall  have  assigned  one  of  the  best  and  brightest 
pages  in  history,  close  by  those  occupied  by  WASH- 
INGTON, by  the  illustrious  LINCOLN,  by  GRANT,  —  the 
greatest  general  of  any  time  or  country,  —  and  also 
close  to  those  of  other  great  and  noble  men  who,  in 
their  time,  largely  contributed  to  make  the  grand 
and  beautiful  history  of  the  American  Kepublic,  and 
to  perpetuate  the  union  of  the  States,  inseparable, 
indivisible,  —  one  grand,  glorious,  and  united  whole 
for  all  the  centuries  yet  to  come. 

AMERICANS  !  our  country  is  this  day  in  tears ;  she 
is  sadly  burdened  with  a  great  sorrow,  and  deeply 
stricken  with  an  unwelcome  grief.  In  that  great 


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country  —  extending  from  ocean  to  ocean,  over  a  dis- 
tance of  about  three  thousand  six  hundred  miles 
from  east  to  west,  and  of  more  than  two  thousand 
miles  from  the  Canadian  Dominion,  on  the  north, 
and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  and  the  Mexican  Republic, 
on  the  south  —  thousands  and  thousands  of  bells  are 
symbolizing  the  sorrow  and  the  grief  of  the  people ; 
and  mourning  representations  are  everywhere  to  be 
seen,  because  of  this  great,  this  sad,  event,  whereby 
the  President  sees,  hears,  and  speaks  never  again. 

But  GARFIELD,  though  dead,  yet  he  lives,  and  will 
ever  live  in  the  hearts  and  memory  of  the  people,  — 
of  all  the  people  of  the  great  Republic,  now  firmly 
and  forever  re-united  and  sent  onward  in  her  great 
mission,  to  be  the  light,  the  admiration,  and  the 
guiding-star  of  the  nations,  kingdoms,  and  empires 
of  the  world.  Heaven  bless  to-day,  and  ever,  our 
sorrowing,  weeping  country. 

AMERICANS  !  how  grand,  how  beautiful  and  heart- 
reaching,  has  the  Queen  of  England  conducted  her- 
self, in  her  personal  capacity  as  well  as  that  of  the 
sovereign  ruler  of  a  great  and  truly  noble  people, 
towards  the  wife,  the  children,  and  family  of  our 
now  death-stricken  chief,  and  also  towards  our  coun- 
try in  its  entirety,  and  the  people  of  the  United 
States  of  America.  So,  too,  has  England  —  indus- 
trious in  mechanical,  agricultural,  commercial,  and 


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other  pursuits ;  wealthy  and  powerful  and  royal  — 
been  very  kind  and  full  of  sympathy  towards  the 
great  Republic  and  the  grief-stricken  family  of  the 
dead  President.  By  these  acts  —  gracious  and  kind 
as  they  are  —  England  has  bound  herself  a  thousand 
times  more  closely  to  the  American  people ;  and  her 
exalted  and  high-minded  Queen  —  already  very  high- 
ly esteemed  by  our  countrymen  in  every  part  of  the 
Union  —  has  brought  herself  and  her  people  more 
closely  to  our  hearts,  and  to  our  nation's  admiration 
and  love.  Thus  has  she  honored  herself,  her  royal 
family,  her  government,  and  all  her  people,  and  for- 
ever made  for  herself  and  for  them  a  place  in  the 
American  heart  and  among  the  American  people. 
Let  us  never  forget  this  noble  Queen,  this  wise,  this 
dignified  and  beloved  ruler,  nor  that  land  and  great 
people  she  governs  and  loves  so  well. 

But  though  our  great  President  has  fallen  by  the 
assassin's  blow,  and  passed  forever  beyond  our  sight 
into  the  silent  chambers  of  the  grave,  his  name  shall 
be  embalmed  in  American  hearts ;  it  shall  stand  in 
full  view  in  characters  of  living  light  in  the  gratitude 
of  a  wonderful  people  and  nation ;  and  it  shall  ever 
have  an  abiding-place  in  the  history  of  these  days 
and  times,  and  in  the  history  of  the  world,  as  well  as 
in  marble,  in  bronze,  and  on  the  canvas,  along  with 
those  of  our  Washington,  of  Lincoln,  of  Grant,  and 


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other  Americans  who  —  by  acts  of  wisdom,  of  love, 
of  truth,  and  of  patriotism  —  have  challenged  the 
admiration  of  the  world  in  making  their  country 
great  and  grand  before  all  nations  and  rulers,  and  in 
securing  the  liberty,  the  prosperity,  the  happiness, 
and  the  peace  of  their  countrymen  for  the  present 
and  for  all  the  years  that  the  future  shall  bring. 

General  GARFIELD  was  great  in  life  ;  he  was  patient 
and  uncomplaining  in  the  midst  of  the  most  intense 
suffering  in  mind  and  in  body ;  but  still  more  great, 
patient,  and  grand  in  death.  From  the  earth  he 
came,  and  to  the  earth  he  this  day  is  returned ;  while 
the  ever  living  life  which  he  had,  is  this  hour,  we 
hope  and  trust,  safely  housed  in  that  house  having 
many  mansions,  not  made  with  hands,  but  eternal  in 
the  heavens,  whose  maker  and  builder  is  Christ  our 
Saviour,  —  "  our  elder  Brother." 

Though  his  death  fills  the  heart  of  our  nation 
with  sorrow  and  deep  grief;  yet  it  and  the  people 
he  loved  and  served  so  well,  will  no  doubt,  advance 
in  grandeur  and  in  greatness  through  his  seemingly 
untimely  death.  How  or  wherein  is  not  for  me  on 
this  occasion  to  discuss.  Hereafter  it  will  appear  to 
you.  Of  the  politics  of  our  country  I  will  not  this 
day  speak  to  you.  It  were  not  just  or  proper  that  I 
should;  but  at  the  open  grave  of  the  illustrious 
Garfield,  with  you  this  day  I  stand  as  a  mourner,  and 


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my  tears  flow  and  mingle  with  yours,  and  with  those 
of  our  countrymen. 

To  establish  his  claim  to  superior  abilities  needs 
no  eulogium  from  us ;  to  render  his  name  immortal, 
no  monument  that  man  can  rear.  The  works  of  his 
public  and  of  his  private  life  praise  him,  and  will 
perpetuate  his  fame  and  his  memory  while  the  pres- 
ent is  ever  passing  and  future  years  come  and  go. 

Again  the  great  lesson  is  repeated,  and  we  are  at 
this  hour  impressed  that  superior  talents,  extensive 
usefulness,  great  honors,  or  rank,  or  exalted  station 
cannot  stay  the  approach  of  death  —  for  we  do  know 
that  GARFIELD  hath  fallen  in  the  battle  of  life  at  the 
head  of  the  Great  Republic,  the  leader  and  ruler  of 
a  nation  and  people,  respected,  loved,  and  honored  by 
all  civilized  nations  and  peoples  in  the  Old  World 
as  well  as  in  the  New,  and  that  this  day  all  of  him 
underneath  the  arch-dome  of  the  heavens  above  us 
that  is  earthy  will  be  committed  to  the  earth,  and 
there  to  have  — 

"  The  icy  worm  around  him  steal, 
Without  the  power  to  scare  away 
The  cold  consumer  of  his  clay." 

His  sad,  very  sad,  death  has  a  lesson  for  all.  His 
virtues  and  talents;  his  energy  and  perseverance; 
his  love  of  home  and  of  country,  and  his  every  manly 
quality  of  head  and  heart  are  this  day  recommended 


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to  be  imitated  by  us,  —  by  Americans  and  Europeans 
everywhere,  as  well  as  by  everybody  tbe  world  over, 
by  the  radiance  reflected  from  his  tomb. 

That  he  had  no  faults  is  not  pretended ;  for  had 
he  been  without  these  in  such  a  life  as  is  this  mortal, 
earthly  life  of  ours,  then  he  would  not  have  been 
man.  His  failings  will,  they  must,  be  forgotten,  and 
his  virtues  and  good  examples  be  indelibly  written 
on  the  tablet  of  memory. 

"  De  mortuis  nil  nisi  bonum" 

as  well  as 

"  De  mortuis  nil  nisi  verum" 

Brief,  indeed,  is  the  time  since  GENERAL  GARFIELD 
stood  before  his  loyal  countrymen,  holding,  in  official 
place,  their  highest  trust,  and  enjoying  their  unlim- 
ited confidence,  honored  and  admired  by  them.  But 
how  is  it  this  day  ?  Then  he  was  like 

"  Some  tall  cliff,  that  lifts  its  awful  form, 
Swells  from  the  vale,  and  midway  leaves  the  storm, 
Though  around  its  breast  the  rolling  clouds  are  spread, 
Eternal  sunshine  settles  on  its  head." 

But  to-day  the  civilized  nations  of  the  earth,  and 
the  people  of  all  climes,  as  well  as  we  who  are  here 
assembled,  are  admonished  that,  after  all,  earth  is  not 
our  home ;  that  "  earth's  stormy  nights  will  soon  be 
over "  with  all  now  living,  and  that  it  is  not  "all  of 


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life  to  live,  or  of  death  to  die."  The  great  destroyer 
comes  in  God's  own  appointed  time  and  manner,  and 
leaves  no  palace,  no  home,  and  no  place  untouched. 
The  rich  and  the  poor,  the  educated  and  the  unedu- 
cated, those  in  freedom's  air  and  those  enslaved ; 
those  in  prison  and  those  out  of  prison,  and  those  of 
exalted  rank  as  well  as  those  of  lower  degree,  —  all, 
all  wither  and  perish  when  the  cold  night  of  death 
cometh.  And  so  it  was  with  the  great  President 
now  deceased,  whose  name  and  memory  we  have 
come  hither  this  day  to  respect  and  to  honor  in  the 
manner  so  beautifully  and  touchingly  suggested  and 
recommended  by  the  Proclamation  of  President  AR- 
THUR, as  best  we  may,  although  in  mid-ocean  we  are 
homeward  bound  upon  the  waters  of  the  mighty 
deep ;  for  the  dark  night  of  death  came  about  him 
with  its  chilling  frosts,  and  they  touched  him,  and  he 
faded,  withered,  and  fell,  as  fade,  wither,  and  fall 
autumn  leaves ;  but,  though  he  has  thus  gone  from 
earth  away,  his  name  and  his  memory  perish  not,  for 

"  Earth's  transitory  things  decay  ; 
Its  pomps,  its  pleasures  pass  away  ; 
But  the  sweet  memory  of  the  good 
Survives  in  the  vicissitude. 

"  As,  in  the  heavens,  the  urns  divine 
Of  golden  light  forever  shine  ; 
Though  clouds  may  darken,  storms  may  rage, 
They  still  shine  on  from  age  to  age ; 


"  So,  through  the  ocean-tide  of  years, 
The  memory  of  the  just  appears  ; 
So,  through  the  tempest  and  the  gloom, 
The  good  man's  virtues  light  the  tomb." 

The  mantle  that  he  cast  off  at  the  gates  of  death 
has  by  our  Constitution  and  laws  fallen  upon  another. 
And  to-day  —  while  the  illustrious  dead  chief  is 
being  borne  away  to  the  silent  home  of  the  dead,  and 
buried  from  the  sight  of  his  loved  ones ;  from  friends 
and  from  his  countrymen  —  America  has  a  rightful 
and  lawful  President,  quietly  and  peacefully  perform- 
ing the  functions  of  that  high,  dignified,  and  truly 
responsible  office. 

That  mantle  could  not  have  fallen  upon  a  nobler 
and  truer  man  than  General  CHESTER  A.  ARTHUR.  He 
is  a  good  lawyer,  holding  high  position,  and  of  superior 
rank  or  order  in  his  profession.  He  is  a  citizen  of 
unclouded  reputation,  bearing  before  him  an  honest 
life  and  goodly  living.  He  is  well  learned  in  his 
profession,  is  finely  educated,  and  is  an  accomplished 
gentleman.  He  is  well  informed  in  the  politics  of 
our  country,  and  familiar  with  official  life  and  its 
burdensome  duties.  All  in  all,  he  is  a  firm,  reliable, 
and  upright  citizen  of  our  Republic  now  in  tears  at 
the  grave  of  General  JAMES  A.  GARFIELD,  who  died 
at  the  post  of  duty,  the  twentieth  President  of  the 
United  States  of  America. 


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Once  before  —  and  not  many  years  ago  —  our 
country  was  called  to  a  similar  sorrow,  when  the 
illustrious  LINCOLN,  chief  magistrate  of  the  Republic, 
gave  up  his  life  by  an  assassin  while  taking  rest  from 
the  cares  and  excitement  of  those  perilous,  stormy, 
and  most  unhappy  times  at  a  public  and  a  respecta- 
ble place  of  amusement  at  the  capital  of  the  nation. 
The  Republic  was  then  passing  through  the  fire,  and 
smoke,  and  blood  of  the  greatest  of  all  wars  known  in 
the  history  of  the  world.  Then  there  was  unrest  in 
every  part  of  our  country.  The  fire  and  smoke  of 
fierce  battle  were  seen  here  and  there.  The  rattle  of 
musketry  and  clash  of  arms  were  heard  in  all  direc- 
tions. Not  so  when  President  GARFIELD  fell  at  the 
hands  of  another  assassin ;  for  the  great  civil  strife 
had  passed  into  history,  and  peace  prevailed  in  every 
part  of  the  country. 

General  ARTHUR  has  succeeded  to  the  office  of 
PRESIDENT  in  a  constitutional  manner ;  and  he  is 
therefore  the  twenty-first  PRESIDENT  of  the  United 
States.  He  will  in  all  things  faithfully  and  honestly 
administer  the  affairs  of  the  government  and  of  our 
country.  He  will  labor  to  perpetuate  the  union  of 
the  States,  to  make  our  country  prosperous,  and  to 
lead  the  people  of  the  whole  country  in  peaceful 
ways  and  honorable  pursuits.  His  address  at  the 
taking  of  the  oath  prescribed  by  our  Constitution, 


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though  brief,  is  full  of  sound  common-sense,  and  of 
wisdom,  and  of  patriotism.  Those  words  came  from 
an  honest  heart.  They  cnnnot  fail  to  satisfy  every- 
body as  to  his  qualifications  and  fitness  to  fill  this 
great  office,  and  to  hold  sacred  all  important  trusts 
now  devolved  upon  him  by  the  operation  of  the  laws 
of  our  country.  In  his  administration  the  country 
will  advance  in  business,  commercial,  and  domestic 
affairs,  as  well  as  in  foreign  relations ;  and  her  re- 
sources will  continue  to  be  successfully  developed  for 
the  good  of  the  nation  and  of  the  people. 

LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN,  —  I  shall  detain  you  only 
a  few  moments  more.  There  are  several  promi- 
nent gentlemen  here  present  from  various  parts  of 
our  beloved  country,  whose  names  have  been  handed 
to  me  by  the  Committee,  and  whom  I  shall  request 
to  address  you  upon  this  occasion.  In  closing  this 
address  I  beg  to  remark  that  funeral  rites  are  useless 
to  the  dead.  To  the  living,  however,  they  are  useful. 
By  them  we  yield  to  our  sense  of  justice,  and  will- 
ingly pay  to  the  dead  that  tribute  of  respect  which 
the  jealousies  of  the  human  heart  cause  men,  often- 
times, to  withhold  from  the  living.  At  the  grave  it 
is  that  distinguished  talents  and  virtues,  viewed  apart 
from  the  frailties  of  human  life,  beam  with  truthful 
radiance  and  demand  a  holy  emulation ;  and  there  it 
is  that  a  voice  seems  to  come  from  that  far  away 


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spirit-realm,  and,  falling  upon  our  ears,  admonishes 
us  that  "  we  too  are  mortal,"  and  bids  us  to  look  at 
the  manly  form  lying  in  the  icy  embrace  of  death ; 
and,  seeing  the  open  grave  soon  to  receive  the  great 
dead,  we  let  the  tender  part  of  nature  manifest  its 
supremacy  and  exert  its  refining  power,  as  we  reach 
forth  the  hand  of  sympathy,  and  "  witness  the  last 
scene  in  the  drama  of  our  own  earthly  life." 

Let  us  this  day  take  courage,  sustain  the  new 
President,  have  full  faith  and  a  well-grounded  hope, 
and  be  of  good  cheer,  although  we  weep  at  the  grave 
of  our  martyred  Garfield.  God  in  heaven  will  bless 
us  and  our  nation,  and  through  these  tears  and  these 
great  sorrows  lead  us  onward  to  a  greater  greatness, 
and  to  a  nobler  and  an  ever-enduring  destiny. 

And  now,  King  Eternal : 

"  We  need  Thee  every  hour, 

Most  gracious  Lord ; 
No  tender  voice  like  Thine, 
Can  peace  afford." 

And  my  country 

"  Needs  Thee  every  hour ; 

Stay  Thou  near  by  ; 
Temptations  lose  their  power 
When  Thou  art  nigh." 


ADDRESS 


OF 


HONORABLE  CHARLES  A,  PEABODY, 

OFFICE  ADDRESS: 

No.  110  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK,  N.Y. 


ADDRESS. 


Judge  PEABODY,  being  called  on  by  the  President 
of  the  meeting,  responded  as  follows :  — 

MR.  CHAIRMAN,  —  I  thank  you  for  the  privilege 
of  speaking  on  this  occasion ;  for,  while  in  common 
with  many  others  I  might,  if  left  to  myself,  prefer 
to  indulge  the  melancholy  reflections  of  the  occasion 
in  silence  and  solitude ;  yet,  as  we  are  to  commune 
socially,  and  speaking  our  own  sadness  is  to  be  the 
order  of  the  meeting,  I  would  not  like  to  be  silent 
and  omit  to  bear  testimony  to  the  respect  and  affec- 
tion I  felt  for  our  late  President  while  living,  or  the 
sorrow  I  feel  that  he  is  dead. 

The  magnitude  of  the  loss  and  misfortune  to  our 
bereaved  country  might  well  make  us  wish  to  indulge 
our  feelings  in  silence.  The  nation  is  plunged  into 
the  deepest  mourning  by  an  event  of  the  most  pain- 
ful character  in  itself,  occurring  from  a  cause  which 
enhances  greatly  the  affliction  it  brings.  The  death 
of  our  chief  magistrate  at  any  time  would  be  griev- 
ous, even  when  occurring  in  the  course  of  nature, 

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and  without  circumstances  of  aggravation,  and  this 
would  be  the  case  in  regard  to  the  person  who  might 
for  the  time  be  invested  with  the  powers  and  honors 
of  the  office,  even  when  that  person  had  no  special 
claims  to  our  regard  otherwise  ;  but  the  pangs  are 
greatly  increased  when  the  event  is  the  result  of 
crime,  and  the  subject  of  such  a  fate  possesses  the 
peculiar  claims  to  our  esteem  and  affection  which 
were  found  in  the  character  of  General  Garfield. 

On  such  an  occasion  we  are  not  wont  to  over- 
look personal  traits  of  character  in  contemplating 
his  official  eminence  and  dignity,  and  forget  the 
man  in  considering  the  great  chief  magistrate.  We 
dwell  with  melancholy  interest  on  his  private  vir- 
tues, and  grieve  for  him  in  view  of  them  as  if  he 
were  dependent  on  them  alone  for  our  interest  in 
him;  and  when  —  in  addition  to  the  loss  of  the 
chief  magistrate,  eminent  and  great  in  that  respect 
and  in  his  private  character,  in  his  purposes  as  well 
as  his  achievements  —  we  recall  the  base  means  by 
which  he  is  taken  from  us,  we  shrink  from  the  con- 
templation and  are  overwhelmed. 

Our  bereaved  country,  bleeding  at  every  pore, 
observes  this  as  a  day  of  mourning  and  humiliation ; 
and  we  do  well  to  note  the  fact,  even  at  this  dis- 
tance on  the  ocean,  and  to  unite  with  countrymen 
at  home  and  wherever  else  they  may  be  in  appro- 


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priate  devotions.  The  life  of  the  deceased,  prior 
to  the  assault  —  wonderful  in  what  he  had  accom- 
plished, in  the  obstacles  he  had  overcome,  and  in 
the  absence  of  all  favoring  means  and  circumstances 
except  his  own  inborn  strength  of  purpose  and 
force  of  character  —  so  pleasantly  summarized  and 
presented  to  us  by  you,  sir,  on  consenting  to  pre- 
side at  this  meeting,  would  have  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  all  appreciative  persons  ;  and  this,  crowned 
with  an  exhibition  of  the  most  heroic  qualities  under 
trials  never  surpassed  in  magnitude,  might  well 
have  been  expected  to  attract  attention  beyond  the 
borders  of  his  own  broad  country. 

But  the  interest  the  event  has  occasioned  has 
greatly  exceeded  what  could  have  been  expected  in 
foreign  countries,  and,  as  has  been  said,  apparently 
without  exaggeration,  has  no  parallel  in  the  history 
of  the  world.  The  increase  in  facilities  for  commu- 
nication between  different  and  distant  countries  of 
the  world  may  be  supposed  in  some  measure  to  ac- 
count for  this,  and  it  does  in  some  measure,  no 
doubt ;  but  it  falls  greatly  short  of  doing  so  in  full. 
It  was  the  intrinsic  qualities  of  character  exhibited  by 
deceased  from  early  childhood :  in  orphanage  bravely 
battling  with  adversity  to  support  himself  (almost  an 
infant)  and  aid  his  afflicted,  widowed  mother  in  a 
struggle  for  life  in  a  western  wilderness  ;  and  rising, 


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not  as  by  a  flight  or  a  fortunate  leap,  but  by  care- 
fully measured  and  studied  legitimate  gradations,  to 
the  position  in  which  he  died  at  the  age  of  fifty 
years,  the  chief  governmental  magistrate  of  a  nation 
of  fifty  millions  of  people,  than  which  there  is  no 
higher  official  position  known  to  man  on  this  earth, — 
it  was  this  most  remarkable  life,  crowned  by  months 
of  suffering,  with  heroic  fortitude  perhaps  equally  re- 
markable, that  has  attracted  the  interest,  sympathy, 
and  affection  of  the  human  family  throughout,  and 
even  beyond,  the  borders  of  Christian  civilization,  and 
has  given  to  our  beloved  President  a  breadth  and 
strength  of  admiration  seldom  enjoyed  by  man. 

It  may  not  be  amiss  to  allude  for  a  moment  to 
the  means  by  which  our  affliction  has  been  brought 
about;  and  turning  our  eyes  in  that  direction  we 
see  that,  flagrant  and  hideous  as  the  act  seems,  it 
lacks  some  circumstances  of  aggravation  which 
might  have  attended  it,  and  has  less  enormity  than 
we  might  at  first  glance  have  supposed.  The  mis- 
erable creature  who  caused  the  evil  acted  alone, 
without  support  from  or  concert  with  any  one  else. 
Of  this  there  seems  to  be  no  doubt.  He  alone  con- 
ceived the  purpose  and  performed  the  act;  and  in 
it  he  had  no  "  aid  "  or  "  comfort,"  and  no  encourage- 
ment even,  from  any  other  person ;  so  that  the  guilt 
extends  to  no  one  else,  but  rests  on  him  alone.  It 
might  have  been  worse,  therefore,  in  this  respect. 


The  act,  it  is  plain,  has  no  political  significance, 
and  this  is  a  fact  of  no  small  importance  in  estimating 
the  weight  of  the  blow  by  which  we  are  smitten.  I 
repeat,  that  the  crime  is  the  act  of  one  man,  and  he 
obscure  and  unknown,  for  any  other  cause  good  or 
bad,  and  has  no  color  of  political  significance.  I  need 
not  say  this  at  home,  or  even  here  in  addressing 
Americans ;  for  we  know  that  there  are  no  organiza- 
tions or  bodies  of  men  among  us  whose  energies  could 
be  directed  to  such  a  purpose;  and  there  is  not  the 
slightest  belief  or  pretence  that  any  were  concerned 
in  this  tragedy.  In  Europe,  whence  we  are  now  on 
our  way  home,  in  some  countries,  combinations  and 
conspiracies  against  the  lives  of  sovereigns  and  public 
men  of  great  eminence  do  occur ;  and  the  fact  is  so 
often  exhibited  to  the  public  mind  that  the  first  im- 
pression there  among  persons  familiar  with  those 
facts  might  be  that  this  act  was  the  result  of  concert 
among  malcontents  or  ill-disposed  factions  in  the 
country  where  it  occurred.  We  know  well  that  there 
was  nothing  of  the  kind  in  the  case,  and  that  the 
worthless  Guiteau,  now  languishing  in  prison,  was 
the  sole  author  of  the  idea  and  of  the  act,  without 
the  aid,  support,  countenance,  sympathy,  or  (as  far  as 
known)  approbation  of  any  other  human  being. 

Thus  much  on  the  supposition  that  the  actor  is  in  a 
state  of  mental  sanity  which  makes  him  responsible 


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for  his  conduct.  What  may  be  thought  of  the  meas- 
ure of  his  guilt  is  of  very  little  importance ;  and  we 
might,  perhaps,  well  dispense  with  all  consideration 
of  the  subject  here.  That  he  was  not  wholly  of  sound 
mind  all  would  seem  to  agree;  and  there  can  be  little 
doubt  of  the  fact.  Whether  his  mental  status  was 
sufficient  to  make  him  responsible  in  law  for  his  con- 
duct will  be  determined  by  the  appropriate  tribunal. 
It  is  of  little  importance  to  us,  in  this  connection,  on 
which  side  of  the  line  marking  the  boundary  between 
responsibility  and  irresponsibility  for  acts  usually 
criminal  his  place  may  be  assigned  him.  One 
wicked  or  insane  man  more  or  less,  in  our  country, 
is  a  matter  of  little  importance  to  the  rest  of  the  fifty 
millions  peopling  our  shores. 

However  we  may  view  some  of  the  circumstances 
attending  this  sad  event,  and  however  in  their  nature 
tending  to  aggravate  or  diminish  the  affliction  to  our 
beloved  country,  one  source  remains  to  us  from  which 
we  certainly  may  derive  consolation :  I  allude  to  the 
treatment  we  have  received  from  other  nations,  their 
sovereigns,  and  citizens  occupying  the  highest  politi- 
cal and  social  positions.  From  them  we  have  received 
the  kindest  possible  treatment,  and  the  most  marked 
consideration ;  and  we  are  at  liberty  to  draw  from 
this  fact  all  the  consolation  it  is  intended  or  calculated 
to  afford.  Nothing  could  surpass  in  kindness  the 


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sympathy  and  affections  expressed  for  our  country,  our 
President,  and  his  sorrowing  wife  and  family ;  and 
this,  too,  by  all  nations  with  whom  we  have  connec- 
tion or  intercourse.  Nothing  could  tend  more  directly 
to  soothe  our  wounded  feelings  and  mitigate  our  sor- 
row than  to  know  that  they  are  appreciated,  and 
that  we  have  the  sympathy  of  those  around  us  in  the 
world  whose  kindly  interest  and  respect  we  esteem. 
From  them,  and  from  England  especially  —  to  whom 
more  than  to  any  other  nation  we  look,  if  not  as  a 
parent,  at  least  as  having  a  common  lineage,  mission, 
and  destiny  —  we  have  received  most  gratifying  as- 
surances of  sympathy  and  kindness  in  our  affliction. 
Our  debt  of  affection  and  gratitude  let  us  be  prompt 
to  acknowledge,  even  in  our  deepest  grief.  I  am  sure 
we  have  already  in  our  hearts  begun  to  pay  it.  May 
she  never  be  in  circumstances  to  receive  payment  in 
kind.  In  nothing  does  it  touch  our  hearts  so  ten- 
derly, perhaps,  as  in  its  bestowal  on  the  heart-stricken 
widow  now  surviving  to  be  the  subject  of  the  prayers 
and  benedictions  of  all  good  persons. 


ADDRESS 


OF 


KEVEKEND  H.  N.  IcTYEIEE, 

OF  NASHVILLE,  TENN., 

of  tfje  JHct^otiist  iEpfgcopal  Cfjurc^  Soutij. 


ADDRESS. 


Bishop  McTyEiRE,  being  called  for  by  the  Chair- 
man, said :  — 

MR.  CHAIRMAN,  —  There  is  sorrow  on  the  sea.  It 
is  meet  and  proper  that  we  be  joined  in  spirit  with 
our  fellow-citizens  on  the  land  who  are  to-day  bury- 
ing our  late  President.  I  was  not  of  those  who  elect- 
ed Mr.  Garfield.  Born  and  brought  up  in  the  South, 
and  dwelling  among  mine  own  people,  I  felt,  with 
them,  a  sense  of  defeat  when  the  choice  of  the 
American  voters  fell  on  him.  And  yet  I  bear  testi- 
mony to  this  fact:  so  many  and  so  great  were  the 
personal  excellences  of  the  successful  candidate,  they 
were  readily  reconciled  to  political  defeat.  The  can- 
vass over,  and  its  result  ascertained,  they  said,  "  This 
man  will  not  suffer  the  Republic  to  be  harmed. 
There  is  security  in  his  elevation,  and  breadth  and 
uprightness  for  all.  He  will  do  us  good  and  not 
evil."  And  the  opening  of  his  career  was  justifying 
these  hopes,  when  suddenly  and  wickedly,  and  cruelly 
he  was  struck  down. 

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Often  were  congratulations  exchanged,  that  in  Mr. 
Garfield  our  young  men  had  an  example  that  must 
be  very  beneficial ;  and  the  crowning  of  such  a  life 
with  honor,  the  highest  that  the  country  can  bestow, 
gave  wholesome  emphasis  to  that  example.  Sober, 
industrious,  frugal,  upright ;  not  ashamed  of  poverty, 
not  shunning  toil ;  but  rising  by  self-reliant  steps  to 
the  foremost  place  among  men.  Here  is  a  lesson  ; 
here  is  encouragement ;  here  is  a  vindication  of  our 
social  and  civil  institutions. 

And  though  we  have  lost  him,  these  are  blessings 
that  cannot  be  lost  to  the  youth  of  our  land.  The 
manner  of  his  life  must  have  an  elevating  influence 
upon  public  men.  He  was  not  ashamed  of  his  re- 
ligious nor  of  his  political  principles.  True  to  both, 
anywhere,  everywhere.  Even  as  President  of  the 
United  States  —  courted,  followed,  flattered  —  we  find 
him,  as  aforetime,  worshipping  in  one  of  the  humblest 
conventicles  of  Washington  City ;  keeping  faith  with 
his  plain  brethren,  the  Disciples,  and  with  his  con- 
science and  his  God. 

Much  prayer  has  been  offered  for  the  wounded 
President.  Our  own  country,  from  thousands  of 
hearts  and  congregations,  has  sent  up  daily  petitions 
to  heaven.  In  England  and  on  the  Continent,  doubt- 
less we  were  all  touched  at  the  feeling  shown,  and 
the  sympathy  for  our  national  calamity.  Since  the 


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extreme  illness  of  the  Prince  of  Wales,  years  ago, 
Great  Britain  had  not  been  so  stirred.  Prayers  were 
offered  there  by  sincere  souls,  and  by  great  assemblies. 
We  left  the  flags  in  London  and  Liverpool,  on  ships 
and  public  buildings,  at  half  mast. 

What  shall  we  say  now  ?  Shall  our  great  grief  be 
deepened  by  the  taunts  of  infidelity'?  Shall  it  be 
declared  that  our  God  heareth  not  prayer  because 
the  President  is  dead,  for  whose  spared  life  so  many 
prayed?  Nay,  my  friends.  Verily,  our  God  is  a 
prayer-hearing  and  a  prayer-answering  God.  "  Ask, 
and  it  shall  be  given;  seek,  and  ye  shall  find;  knock, 
and  it  shall  be  opened  unto  you,"  is  still  true.  God, 
our  Heavenly  Father,  always  reserves  and  exercises 
an  all-wise,  all-loving,  and  a  parental  discretion  as  to 
the  specific  manner  of  granting  blessings  asked  for, 
and  of  answering  prayers.  Were  it  not  so,  we,  in 
our  ignorance,  might  well  be  afraid  to  ask  for  any 
thing.  The  privilege  of  petition  might  turn  out  a 
curse  if  our  specific  requests  were  always  called  down 
on  our  heads.  When  we  ask  for  blessing,  a  blessing 
we  have,  though,  may  be,  not  in  the  precise  form  that 
our  ignorant  and  eager  desire  dictated.  Good  we 
seek,  and  good  will  be  found;  but  God  is  to  determine 
the  shape  and  measure  of  it.  These  conditions  of 
fervent,  effectual  prayer  remain  the  same,  whether 
one  man,  or  a  thousand,  or  a  nation,  is  bowed  in 


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prayer.  Human  majorities  and  multitudes  cannot 
take  away  this  divine  discretion,  this  fatherly  pre- 
rogative, in  answering  prayer;  and  we  rejoice  that  it 
is  so. 

All  men  must  die.  sooner  or  later.  Prayer  cannot 
make  any  man  live  forever,  and  so  escape  the  doom 
which  He  himself  hath  fixed  who  appointed  prayer. 
We  look  to  the  ends,  the  uses,  the  consequences,  the 
circumstances  of  living  or  dying,  at  a  particular  time, 
and  ask  that  a  valuable  life  may  be  spared,  in  view  of 
these.  It  may  please  God  to  lengthen  days;  or  who 
can  tell  if  it  may  not  please  him  to  grant  the  same  or 
greater  blessings,  in  some  other  way  than  by  length- 
ening days] 

What  do  we  see?  The  hearts  of  all  Americans 
united  about  that  sick-bed.  On  the  pulse  of  the 
President  our  fingers  have  been  for  these  weary, 
anxious  months.  Bitterness  and  strife  cease.  As 
was  said  in  the  opening  prayer,  "  The  hearts  of  our 
people  have  been  knit  and  woven  together."  God 
can  make  the  wrath  of  man  to  praise  him,  —  out  of 
seeming  evil,  still  educing  good.  The  Sovereign  of 
the  British  Empire,  —  whose  queenly  wisdom  and 
womanly  virtue  make  her  to  be  admired  and  loved 
in  all  lands,  and  in  none  more  than  in  our  own,  —  she 
weeps  with  the  widow  of  our  lamented  President,  and 
her  people  mingle  their  tears  with  ours.  What  a 


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thing  is  this  that  has  come  to  pass !  President  Gar- 
field  was  in  office  about  six  months,  and  nearly  half 
of  that  time  was  spent  in  tragic  sufferings  and  death. 
But  the  longest  administration  allowed  to  any  Presi- 
dent would  not  have  produced  such  results.  The 
most  brilliant  decade  of  government  never  approached 
such  moral,  national,  and  international  achievements. 
Behold,  the  ministry  of  innocent,  heroic  suffering! 
God  has  not  allowed  it  to  be  in  vain.  He  has  heard 
prayer.  Let  us  sing  of  mercy  and  judgment.  And 
let  us  remember,  with  bowed  hearts  and  thankful, 
that  while  Mr.  Garfield  was  a  statesman  and  patriot, 
and  therefore  we  had  hope  in  his  life,  he  was  also  a 
Christian,  and  we  have  hope  in  his  death. 


ADDRESS 

OP 

HONORABLE   U.  I,  EOSE 

OF  LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK., 

in  tfje  State  terta  of 


ADDRESS. 


Judge  ROSE,  having  been  called  for  by  the  Chair- 
man, said :  — 

MR.  CHAIRMAN,  —  The  subject  of  our  great  afflic- 
tion is  the  more  gloomy  to  me  from  the  fact  that  I 
am  not  able  to  see  any  compensating  advantages  of 
any  great  value  to  flow  from  the  death  of  the  Presi- 
dent. While  it  may  be  desirable  to  take  a  hopeful 
view  of  the  situation,  it  is  doubtless  still  better  to  take 
an  accurate  view.  In  the  infinite  number  of  conse- 
quences that  must  flow  directly  or  indirectly  from 
every  important  event,  it  is  always  possible  to  make 
such  a  selection  as  will,  when  separately  considered, 
make  it  appear  that  the  world  has  been  benefited  or 
injured,  just  as  we  please.  Naturally  shocked  by  a 
great  crime,  the  mind  seeks  relief  in  some  vague 
theory  of  collateral  advantages.  In  this  case  I  have 
not  heard  of  aoy  benefit  that  can  be  regarded  as 
of  any  lasting  value.  It  is  creditable  to  humanity  to 
think  that  the  wounding  and  death  of  the  President 
have  called  forth  such  universal  expressions  of  sym- 


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pathy  from  the  whole  civilized  world;  and  we  who 
have  been  abroad  during  the  summer  have  all,  I 
doubt  not,  been  infinitely  touched  by  the  uniform 
warmth  and  sincerity  of  the  manifestations  of  sorrow 
on  the  part  of  people  of  alien  race  and  speech,  as 
well  as  by  the  people  of  England,  in  a  calamity  that 
seemed  to  be  peculiarly  our  own;  but  we  all  knew 
before  that  "  one  touch  of  nature  makes  the  whole 
world  kin."  A  new  example  can  only  give  some  new 
emphasis  to  a  well-known  truism. 

The  most  desirable  of  all  the  advantages  that  I 
have  heard  mentioned  was,  that  the  death  of  Mr. 
Garfield  would  banish  or  allay  all  that  sectional  strife 
which  —  with  sad  impeachment  of  our  wisdom  —  has 
proved  so  injurious  to  our  country.  Figures  of  speech 
may  certainly  be  indulged  when  the  heart  is  full  of 
mourning ;  but  I  am  glad  to  apprehend,  as  a  sober 
reality,  that  the  sectional  strife  thus  to  be  dispelled 
has  already  died  a  natural  death,  being  now  only  oc- 
casionally galvanized  into  a  semblance  of  life  by  the 
appliances  of  American  politicians.  To  hope  that 
these  politicians  will  undergo  any  thorough  reforma- 
tion because  of  any  emotion  whatever  is  to  indulge 
in  hopes  that  are  belied  by  all  past  experience.  It  is 
not  unjust  to  suppose  that  their  sorrow,  however  sin- 
cere, will  be  tempered  or  increased  by  discreet  con- 
siderations as  to  how  the  event  may  chance  to  affect 
their  individual  interests. 


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Confronted  by  a  great  misfortune,  we  are  brought 
directly  face  to  face  with  the  question  of  the  existence 
of  evil  in  the  world  in  a  hard  and  revolting  manner. 
We  cannot  see  how  it  is  that  "  an  eagle,  towering  in 
his  pride  of  place,"  should  be  "  moused  at  by  a  hawk, 
and  killed."  Darker  than  any  question  propounded 
by  the  sphinx  is  this  problem  that  defies  our  deepest 
scrutiny.  Every  one  must  judge  of  it  as  he  will ;  but 
to  me  it  seems  to  be  almost  as  irreverent  to  take 
Providence  under  any  apparent  patronage  as  to  tax 
eternal  justice  with  blindness  or  cruelty. 

I  should  be  sorry  to  think  that  the  deep  feeling 
everywhere  displayed  has  been  wholly  due  to  the 
illustrious  official  position  occupied  by  the  deceased. 
As  President  of  the  Republic,  Mr.  Garfield  was  en- 
titled to  respect ;  but  "  a  breath  can  make  them,  as 
a  breath  has  made."  On  a  moment's  reflection  it 
must  be  obvious  that  Garfield  will  be  remembered 
more  as  a  man  than  as  a  President.  Having  risen 
from  the  humblest  rank  of  life  to  the  highest,  he  was 
the  fit  representative  of  every  class  of  our  people.  A 
self-made  man,  he  was  of  that  type  that  Americans 
most  delight  to  honor.  He  was  far  above  the  average 
of  our  later  Presidents  ;  their  equal  in  statesmanship, 
their  superior  in  cultivation  and  scholarship.  He  had 
laid  his  hand  to  the  great  work  of  purifying  American 
politics  and  of  introducing  some  rational  civil  service, 


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and  the  people  had  faith  in  his  ability  to  work  out  the 
needed  reform.  Another  may  carry  on  the  labor  with 
equal  intelligence  and  firmness  ;  but  the  indefinable 
and  potent  spell  of  individual  prestige  is  gone  forever. 
Is  it  not  true  that  Sparta  hath  a  thousand  better 
men  than  he.  The  death  of  a  good  man  in  high 
place,  competent  to  perform  its  duties  in  a  manner 
suitable  to  their  dignity  and  importance,  is  simply 
irreparable.  In  spite  of  all  specious  pleas,  and  hopes 
fondly  cherished  by  us  all  which  may  prove  delusive, 
my  best  conviction  is  that  we  are  returning  home  to 
our  country  to  find  it  infinitely  poorer  than  it  was 
when  we  left  it. 

An  ancient  philosopher  advised  that  no  man  should 
be  counted  happy  until  after  his  death.  If  President 
Garfield  did  not  live  long  enough  for  his  country,  he 
lived  long  enough  for  his  own  fame ;  and  the  tragic 
manner  of  his  death  will  clothe  his  life  with  a  deeper 
and  more  tender  interest.  The  example  of  his  early 
struggles  and  later  successes  will  serve  to  animate 
generous  spirits  yet  unborn,  while  the  uncomplaining 
fortitude  of  his  last  long  agony,  soothed  and  sustained 
by  all  that  is  bright  and  beautiful  in  womanly  devo- 
tion, will  ever  remain  as  a  priceless  legacy  to  be  cher- 
ished by  rich  and  by  poor  alike. 


ADDEESS 


OF 


HONORABLE  EDWAKD  H.  EAST 


OF  NASHVILLE,  TENN., 

in  ity  State  Courts  of 


ADDRESS. 


Judge  EAST,  being  called  for  by  the  Chairman, 
said :  — 

MR.  CHAIRMAN,  —  On  the  4th  of  March,  1881, 
James  A.  Garfield  was  inaugurated  President  of  the 
United  States.  Among  the  spectators  of  this  august 
scene  were  some  who  had  a  peculiar  and  personal 
interest  in  the  man  and  occasion.  There  was  his 
devoted  wife,  who  had  journeyed  hand  in  hand  with 
him  from  obscurity  to  the  proud  elevation  he  that 
day  reached.  There  were  his  hopeful  children,  and 
his  old  mother,  who  in  maternal  pride  saw  her  boy 
advanced  by  his  fellow-citizens  to  be  the  first  citizen 
in  a  republic  distinguished  for  great  men.  To  her 
this  event  must  have  had  especial  interest,  being  the 
consummation  of  her  highest  hopes,  —  an  ample  rec- 
ompense for  her  life  of  toil  and  privation.  On  the 
2d  of  July,  1881,  President  Garfield  was  shot  down 
in  the  streets  of  Washington. 

44  An  eagle,  towering  in  his  pride  of  place, 
Was  by  a  mousing  owl  hawk'd  at,  and  killed.'' 

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The  sorely-wounded  man  struggled  with  his  mortal 
hurt  with  manful  courage  and  Christian  patience  for 
weary  days,  weeks,  and  months,  and  the  pathetic 
combat  has  been  watched  with  deepest  sympathy  by 
the  whole  civilized  world.  Emperors,  kings,  and 
queens,  and  more  than  these,  the  great  masses  of 
humanity,  have  hung  upon  the  vicissitudes  of  the  sick 
chamber  with  keen  interest,  and  alternated  with  every 
gleam  of  hope  and  fear.  All  is  ended  now.  The 
skill  of  science,  the  love  of  friends,  the  loyalty  of 
people,  and  the  prayers  of  Christendom  have  striven 
in  vain  to  preserve  a  life  so  precious. 

The  civilized  world  has  received  the  sad  news  of 
his  death  with  a  shock  of  sorrow.  It  is  due  from 
us,  who  were  temporary  sojourners  in  foreign  lands 
during  these  sad  days,  to  bear  to  our  countrymen  at 
home  the  evidences  of  the  deep  and  broad  sympathy 
which  we  have  everywhere  witnessed  in  behalf  of  our 
deceased  President.  There  was  no  man  or  ruler  on 
earth  on  whom  envy  or  hatred  had  less  cause  to  fix 
a  malignant  and  murderous  purpose.  It  seems,  in 
these  days,  that  men  of  eminence,  by  whatever  offi- 
cial designation  they  may  be  called,  who  attract  an 
unusual  share  of  public  affection  or  notice,  are  open 
to  the  assaults  of  those  who  murder  from  vanity  or 
malice.  If  we  raise  up  men  worthy  to  represent 
us,  may  we  not  expect  that  these  men  should  also  die 


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for  us,  rather  than  die  in  the  usual  way  ?  Here  was 
a  man  who  had  lately  sheathed  the  sword  of  a  major- 
general,  had  for  eighteen  years  been  a  representative 
in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  and  before  he 
had  laid  down  this  honor  he  had  been  crowned  with 
the  laurels  of  a  senator,  and  instantly  advanced  by 
his  fellow-citizens  to  the  chief  magistracy  of  the 
nation.  Did  ever  such  magnificent  prospects  lie 
stretched  out  in  front  of  any  man,  in  ancient  or 
modern  times  ?  And  surely  the  prospect  must  have 
been  sweetened  by  the  fact  that  wife,  mother,  and 
children  were  present  to  participate  in  and  share  the 
joys  and  honors,  as  they  had  in  other  days  borne  with 
him  the  burdens. 

"  This  is  the  state  of  man :  to-day  he  puts  forth 
The  tender  leaves  of  hope,  to-morrow  blossoms, 
And  bears  his  blushing  honors  thick  upon  him : 
The  third  day,  comes  a  frost,  a  killing  frost ; 
And  —  when  he  thinks,  good  easy  man,  full  surely 
His  greatness  is  a  ripening  —  nips  his  root, 
And  then  he  falls." 

It  is  eminently  befitting  that  we  —  citizens  of  the 
Great  Eepublic,  whose  chief  magistrate  has  thus 
been  "  taken  off,"  while  the  hearts  of  our  country- 
men are  bowed  down  in  sorrow  as  they  deposit  the 
remains  of  the  murdered  President  in  his  "  narrow 
home  "  —  should  commingle  our  tears  and  griefs  with 


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theirs,  and  tender  to  her  who  has  suffered  most  the 
consolations  of  our  sympathies.  And,  above  all,  the 
American  citizen  should,  in  view  of  the  open  tomb, 
resolve  to  free  our  politics  of  that  party  rancor, 
malice,  and  hatred  which  breed  and  generate  the  vile 
instruments  of  murder  and  basest  crime. 


ADDRESS 

OF 

KEY,  FATIEE  I.  J.  IASTEKSON 

OF  PEABODY,  MASS., 

Catfjolic  Cljurc!)  in 


ADDRESS. 


MR.  CHAIRMAN,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  and  fellow 
American  Citizens,  —  I  deem  it  a  duty,  to  say  first 
of  all,  that  I  do  not  intend,  as  I  am  not  I  hope 
expected,  to  stand  here  before  you  to  address  you  in 
any  prepared  or  timely-arranged  form  of  speech. 
I  am  here  in  answer  to  a  well-aimed,  I  am  sure, 
and  gratefully-received  invitation,  tendered  to  me  but 
some  moments  ago,  to  personally  testify  that  my  sor- 
row and  sympathies  are  cordially  united  with  yours 
in  this  sad  crisis  of  our  country's  trying  affliction. 
I  grieve  with  you  for  our  common  loss ;  our  illustri- 
ous chief  is  departed;  the  great  American  nation  is 
deeply  filled  with  mourning,  and  the  dear  wife  and 
fond  children  of  a  faithful  husband  and  father  are 
now  plunged  into  a  most  hopeless  bereavement. 
And,  honored  sir,  I  recall  with  much  pleasure,  as  a 
Catholic  priest,  the  living  and  lively  testimony  of  our 
church's  universal  and  profound  sorrow,  as  evinced 
in  her  early  and  continued  words  of  cheer  to  the 
wounded  and  dying  chief,  and  in  her  maternal  strains 

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of  tenderness  for  his  sufferings  and  those  of  his 
wounded  country  and  family.  The  Catholic  priests 
and  people  all  over  the  land  prayed  as  with  one 
mighty  voice  that  the  distinguished  patient  might  be 
spared;  that  tranquillity  might  rule  cur  beloved 
land,  and  the  sting  of  death  be  averted  from  the 
presidential  home.  But  the  tried  and  brave  patriot 
is  gone ;  the  trusted  leader  of  our  people  has  de- 
parted; he  is  torn  forever  from  the  free  land  on 
whose  eminence  he  had  just  been  seated;  taken 
away  from  the  glory  that  but  yesterday  had  so  com- 
pletely encircled  him ;  and,  worse  and  worse,  dragged 
from  the  wife  and  children  he  so  loved,  and  that  so 
loved  him  in  return.  Let,  then,  our  united  sympathy 
go  forth  in  its  most  assuaging  and  hopeful  career  to 
cheer  our  country  in  her  present  sadness,  and  to 
quench  the  consuming  anguish,  as  best  we  can,  of 
poor  widowed  Mrs.  Garfield  and  her  languishing 
household.  Our  country's  constitution,  gentlemen, 
was  once  again  shocked  by  the  unhallowed  hand  of 
the  assassin ;  but  it  was,  thank  God,  hardly  shaken, 
for  it  is  yet  strong  and  vigorous  as  before ;  and  so 
may  it  ever  be  a  proof  against  all  the  future  dangers 
of  human  frailty  with  which  it  may  from  time  to 
time  have  to  come  in  conflict. 


ADDRESS 


GENERAL  CYRUS  BUSSEY 


OF  NEW  ORLEANS,  LA., 


of  tjje  NetD--©rIeans  Cfjamfar  of  Commerce. 


ADDRESS. 


General  BUSSEY,  being  called  upon  by  the  Chair- 
man, said :  — 

MR.  CHAIRMAN,  —  We  have  met  this  day  as  coun- 
trymen of  a  great  nation  bowed  down  under  the 
'pressure  of  a  mighty  grief;  and  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  every  American  regards  it  a  pleasant 
duty  to  take  part  in  commemorating  this  sad  event. 
The  Chairman  has  referred  to  that  which  is  tak- 
ing place  in  our  country,  and,  no  doubt,  if  there 
is  one  grief  more  than  another  it  is  that  we,  as 
Americans,  are  this  day  prohibited  from  being  at 
home  with  our  countrymen,  and  sharing  with  them 
the  great  grief  that  has  overspread  the  nation.  I 
have  contemplated  for  eighty-five  days,  since  the 
news  of  that  great  calamity  reached  Europe,  what 
must  be  the  feeling  as,  day  by  day  and  hour  by  hour, 
the  people  of  our  happy,  united  country  have  watched 
the  bulletins  that  have  emanated  from  the  sick  cham- 
ber of  our  chief  magistrate ;  and  I  believe,  if  it  were 
possible  to  arrive  at  an  expression  of  opinion,  we  would 

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find  that  the  whole  American  heart  is,  perhaps  for 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  nation,  beating  as 
one  great  heart  in  sympathy  over  this  great  calamity 
which  has  befallen  them.  A  few  months  ago  it  was 
my  good  fortune  to  be  in  Washington,  and  in  the  pri- 
vate chamber  of  the  President's  mansion,  where  I  saw 
a  few  of  the  President's  friends  one  by  one  come  in 
and  take  him  by  the  hand,  —  among  them  Vice-Presi- 
dent  ARTHUR,  who  went  there  to  pay  his  respects  to 
Gen.  and  Mrs.  Garfield,  and  to  congratulate  them  on 
their  great  fortune  and  prosperity.  From  that  scene, 
so  magnificent,  my  mind  naturally  went  back  to  the 
time  when  Garfield  was  a  poor  boy,  one  of  the  low- 
liest in  the  land,  working  at  the  hardest  daily  toil  to 
earn  support  for  himself  and  the  widowed  mother; 
and  I  could  not  help  thinking  that  it  was  by  Mr.  Gar- 
field's  own  energy  and  industry,  and  the  practice  of 
those  great  virtues  which  characterized  the  best  of  our 
people,  he  had  brought  himself  from  one  gradation  to 
another  to  the  proud  position  of  being  the  head  of 
more  than  fifty  millions  of  people  who  did  him  honor 
in  electing  him  to  that  great  office.  On  my  way  to 
Europe  I  again  called  at  the  White  House,  and  at  that 
time  Mrs.  Garfield  lay  upon  a  bed  of  languishing,  and 
was  not  expected  to  live.  It  was  the  husband's  place 
then  to  stand  at  the  bedside  of  his  faithful,  devoted 
wife ;  and  he  knew  how  anxiously  the  American  people 


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watched  over  her  sickness,  now  overshadowed  by  the 
present  calamity.  Mrs.  Garfield  had  barely  recovered 
sufficiently  to  be  able  to  be  removed  to  Long  Branch. 
Her  suffering  and  dangerous  illness  was  one  of  the 
incidents  which  prepared  the  public  mind  for  the 
great  sympathy  which  has  been  manifested  for  her 
since  the  occurrence  of  the  tragic  event.  The  Presi- 
dent had  removed  his  wife  to  Long  Branch,  and  had 
returned  to  Washington  for  a  day  or  two,  and  was  on 
his  way  again  to  join  her  when  the  bullet  of  the 
assassin  felled  him ;  and  for  eighty  days  the  prayers  of 
the  whole  world  have  gone  up  as  one  prayer  to  Al- 
mighty God  that  he  would  spare  the  life  of  the  Presi- 
dent, and  give  him  back  to  the  nation  and  his  loving 
wife,  so  that  he  might  still  be  a  blessing,  and  that  his 
life  might  be  an  example  to  the  people  of  the  earth. 
But  God  willed  it  otherwise,  and  there  is  doubtless  a 
lesson  in  it  all.  President  Garfield  himself  believed 
in  an  overshadowing  Providence;  and  they  well  re- 
membered, many  of  them,  —  in  that  dark  hour  when 
ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  was  stricken  down,  and  when  the 
people  of  New  York  were  gathered  in  the  streets,  an 
excited  mob,  believing  that  in  some  way  the  party 
opposed  to  the  administration  was  responsible  for  the 
deed,  and  seeking  some  person  on  whom  to  wreak 
their  vengeance,  —  it  was  in  such  an  hour  that  JAMES 
A.  GARFIELD  stepped  on  to  the  balcony  of  a  hotel, 


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and  called  on  his  countrymen  to  hear  him,  and  told 
them  that  God  reigned  and  would  vindicate  his  law. 
Again,  when  Gen.  Garfield  stood  in  the  burying- 
ground  at  Arlington,  and  made  the  oration  at  the 
dedication  of  that  great  sepulchre,  he  referred  to  the 
martyrdom  of  St.  Peter  at  Rome,  and  the  erection  of 
that  magnificent  temple,  St.  Peter's,  which  had  at- 
tracted the  eyes  of  two  hundred  millions  of  people ; 
he  referred  to  the  sacrifice  of  the  humble  fisherman 
who  laid  down  his  life;  and  in  that,  one  of  the 
grandest  orations  ever  delivered  in  America,  he  made 
use  of  this  sentence :  —  "A  noble  life,  crowned  with 
heroic  deeds,  rises  above  and  outlives  the  pride  and 
pomp  of  glory  of  the  weightiest  empire  on  the  earth." 
Thus  recognizing  that  the  life  of  one  man  might  be- 
come of  more  importance  and  more  value  to  the  world 
than  a  whole  empire  itself.  President  Garfield's  has 
been  such  a  life.  When  the  historian  shall  write  the 
life  of  that  great  man,  and  compile  his  utterances,  it 
will  be  found  that  in  every  public  speech  there  are 
gems  of  thought  that  will  do  honor  to  the  greatest 
minds  who  have  ever  lived.  The  whole  of  his  life  has 
been  spent  in  the  acquisition  of  knowledge,  and  as  a. 
teacher  of  men.  He  has  left  on  record  nothing  of 
which  his  family  and  the  nation  cannot  take  pride. 
Education,  civilization,  and  the  Christian  religion  evei 
found  in  him  a  faithful  advocate  and  friend. 


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I  have  no  doubt  that  the  sickness  and  death  of 
Gen.  Garfield  has  had  more  to  do  in  bringing  about 
•a  unity  of  feeling  among  the  nations  than  any  event 
which  has  transpired  since  the  crucifixion  of  Christ. 
It  is  impossible  to  say  at  present  what  will  be  the 
influence  of  Gen.  Garfield's  sickness  and  death ;  but 
we  are  all  well  aware  that  it  would  have  been  im- 
possible to  have  conveyed  to  the  mind  of  every  young 
man  in  the  nation  the  lesson  of  Gen.  Garfield's  death, 
but  for  the  crowning  event  which  has  made  it  so  glori- 
ous. Every  young  man  in  the  nation,  no  doubt,  has 
been  stimulated  by  the  fact  that  it  is  possible  for  the 
lowliest  man  to  rise  by  his  own  energy  to  the  most 
exalted  station ;  and  what  woman  in  the  land  has 
read  of  the  heroic  devotion  Mrs.  Garfield  has  dis- 
played in  the  sick  chamber  without  resolving  that  in 
future  she  would  become  a  more  devoted  wife  and 
mother  than  she  has  ever  been  before  \  The  aspira- 
tions of  the  whole  world  have  no  doubt  been  elevated. 
What  grander  compliment  could  be  paid  to  a  great 
statesman,  in  a  country  like  America,  than  is  con- 
tained in  the  announcement  which  has  been  made 
that,  after  twenty-five  years  of  public  life,  surrounded 
as  he  has  been  by  corruption,  with  the  opportunity 
of  amassing  a  large  fortune  without  the  knowledge 
of  any  one,  the  amount  he  has  left  behind  him  is 
so  small  ?  The  people  of  the  United  States  have  ex- 


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hausted  the  entire  market  of  every  thing  that  will 
exhibit  their  feeling  of  grief,  and  entire  streets  of  the 
great  cities  are  draped  in  mourning ;  not  a  house 
being  without  some  evidence  of  the  sorrow  that  is 
felt  by  the  people.  The  great  marts  of  trade  are 
closed;  around  every  hearthstone,  and  in  every  tem- 
ple of  worship  in  America  and  in  foreign  lands,  the 
people  are  bowed  to-day  in  sorrow.  Witness  the  part 
taken  in  this  great  sorrow  by  the  people  of  England, 
from  the  Queen  to  the  humblest  peasant ;  and  we  are 
sure  there  is  not  a  man  among  them  coming  from 
the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic  who,  after  all  the  evi- 
dences received  from  the  voice  of  England,  did 
not  feel  he  had  come  back  to  the  old  homestead  to 
share  the  sympathies  of  the  English  people  in  this 
great  calamity.  The  people  of  Great  Britain,  I  wish 
to  say  as  an  American,  have  stamped  themselves  as 
the  greatest  people  on  the  civilized  globe.  They 
have  carried  into  every  land,  by  their  magnificent 
commerce,  civilization  and  Christianity,  which  has 
blessed  the  world  to  a  greater  degree  than  the  influ- 
ence of  any  other  nation  on  the  earth.  It  is  no 
small  matter  to  receive  the  sympathy  of  such  a 
people.  The ,  Mayor  of  Liverpool  said  the  other 
day,  at  the  Town-hall,  in  his  eloquent  speech,  that 
they  were  there  to  sympathize  with  their  kinsmen. 
They  were  kinsmen.  That  Americans  were  English, 


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and  he  had  no  doubt  that  England  was  American, 
and  that  from  that  time  forward  a  new  era  had 
dawned  between  the  two  nations,  and  that  whatever 
in  the  past  had  tended  to  divide  and  distract  them, 
they  were  from  this  time  forward  one  great  Anglo- 
Saxon  people,  —  one  in  sentiment  and  one  in  mind. 
In  conclusion,  MR.  PRESIDENT,  I  beg  to  present  for 
consideration  and  action,  upon  this  sad  and  solemn 
occasion,  the  following  resolutions :  — 

Resolved,  That  all  American  citizens  now  on  board  the  steam- 
ship "  SCYTHIA"  share  with  their  countrymen  and  with  the  world 
the  horror  and  detestation  of  the  crime  which  has  stricken  down 
the  President  of  the  United  States  ;  that  we  cannot  adequately 
express  the  anguish  we  feel  at  the  death  of  so  distinguished  a 
man  at  the  beginning  of  a  term  of  service  which  promised  to  bring 
into  play  his  noblest  qualities,  and  to  mark  a  new  epoch  in  the 
administration  of  the  government ;  that  we  look  with  melancholy 
pride  as  well  upon  the  rare  fortitude  and  Christian  patience  with 
which  he  endured  extreme  and  prolonged  pain  as  upon  the 
lofty  attributes  of  his  character  as  statesman  and  as  man  ;  and 
that  we  tender  our  profound  sympathy  with  Mrs.  Garfield,  who 
from  first  to  last  has  shown  the  best  attributes  of  womanhood, 
and  with  the  other  members  of  a  family  who  have  thus  cruelly 
been  robbed  of  their  head.  And  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  we  desire  to  express  our  grateful  appreciation 
of  the  sorrow  and  sympathy  evinced  by  all  classes  in  Great  Brit- 
ain, from  Queen  to  peasant,  with  the  late  President  in  his  suffer- 
ing, with  his  family  in  their  bereavement,  and  with  the  Republic 
in  its  grief ;  that  we  especially  recognize  the  depth  and  sincerity 


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of  the  feeling  manifested  by  the  people  of  Europe  at  every  stage 
of  the  agony  which  culminated  in  death,  and  on  the  occasion  of 
the  loss  which  death  entails  ;  that  we  value  highly  these  evidences 
of  affection  and  respect,  and  that  we  discern  in  the  spontaneity 
and  warmth  of  their  display,  and  in  the  response  they  call  forth 
from  the  American  heart,  the  development  of  a  force  that  will 
hereafter  be  beneficially  felt  in  the  relations  of  the  two  coun- 
tries, England  and  America. 

Before  taking  my  seat,  Mr.  Chairman,  permit  me 
to  say  that,  while  we  pause  before  the  open  grave  of 
our  dead  President,  where  very  soon  his  remains  are 
to  be  forever  hid  from  our  view,  and  because  of  the 
wise  provision  made  by  our  fathers  in  the  establish- 
ment of  our  government,  another  has  taken  upon 
himself  the  great  office  of  President,  and  has  issued 
a  proclamation  and  an  inaugural  address  which  are 
filled  with  the  highest  evidences  of  his  ability  and 
fitness  for  the  exalted  office  he  holds.  President 
ARTHUR  has  had  large  experience,  and  has  shown 
great  executive  ability ;  and  has  shown  that  he  pos- 
sesses a  conscience  ever  ready  to  respect  the  will  of 
his  countrymen.  I  was  pained  to  read  in  the  public 
journals  of  England  apprehensions  that  a  corrupt 
party  was  coming  into  power  in  the  American  Re- 
public. These  journals  know  very  little  of  our  insti- 
tutions if  they  suppose  the  American  people  will 
tolerate  a  corrupt  government.  The  struggle  for 


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office  is  everywhere  fierce  and  exciting;  but  when 
the  contest  is  over,  the  incumbent  is  answerable  to 
the  people,  who  will  see  that  the  government  is  faith- 
fully administered.  In  this  trying  hour  President 
ARTHUR  deserves  the  sympathy  and  support  of  the 
whole  American  people,  whose  love  of  country  should 
rise  above  personal  considerations.  And,  MR.  PRESI- 
DENT, I  now  ask  you  to  submit  the  resolutions  which 
have  been  read  to  this  large  gathering  of  Americans 
and  of  Europeans  for  their  adoption  and  approval, 
after  they  have  been,  as  I  trust  they  will  be,  seconded 
by  some  gentleman  present  in  an  appropriate  address. 


THE  RESOLUTIONS,  as  offered  by  General  BUSSEY, 
were  seconded  by  Hon.  F.  A.  WARD,  of  the  city  of 
Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  in  an  effective  and  eloquent  address, 
which  was  listened  to  with  marked  attention;  after 
which  they  were  submitted  by  the  Chairman  to  the 
assembly,  and  were  unanimously  adopted,  in  the  midst 
of  sad  hearts  and  eyes  filled  with  tears  of  grief. 


THE  addresses  having  been  made  and  the  resolu- 
tions adopted,  the  following  NATIONAL  HYMN,  having 
been  announced  by  Rev.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN,  D.D.,  was 
sung,  producing  profound  impressions  :  — 


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"MY  COUNTRY!    'TIS  OF  THEE." 

My  country  !  'tis  of  thee, 
Sweet  land  of  liberty, 

Of  thee  I  sing : 
Land  where  my  fathers  died, 
Land  of  the  pilgrims'  pride, 
From  every  mountain's  side 

Let  freedom  ring. 

My  native  country !  thee  — 
Land  of  the  noble  free  — 

Thy  name  I  love  : 
I  love  thy  rocks  and  rills, 
Thy  woods  and  templed  hills  ; 
My  heart  with  rapture  thrills, 

Like  that  above. 

Let  music  swell  the  breeze, 
And  ring  from  all  the  trees 

Sweet  freedom's  song : 
Let  mortal  tongues  awake, 
Let  all  that  breathe  partake, 
Let  rocks  their  silence  break, 

The  sound  prolong. 

Our  fathers'  God,  to  thee  — 
Author  of  liberty  — 

To  thee  we  sing : 
Long  may  our  land  be  bright 
With  freedom's  holy  light. 
Protect  us  by  thy  might, 

Great  God,  our  King  ! 


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THE  Hon.  AUGUSTUS  BELMONT,  of  New  York  City, 
delivered  an  ADDRESS  in  the  order  stated  on  page  7 
hereof,  which  was  of  rare  classical  beauty  and  touch- 
ingly  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  and  it  was  atten- 
tively listened  to  by  the  large  audience ;  but  a  written 
copy  of  it  has  not  been  furnished  for  publication  with 
the  foregoing  proceedings,  which  is  much  regretted 
by  the  SECRETARY,  as  no  doubt  it  will  be  by  those  into 
whose  hands  this  MEMORIAL  may  come. 


THE  SECRETARY  also  regrets  that  the  Hon.  F.  A. 
WARD  did  not  furnish  a  written  copy  of  his  excellent 
and  appropriate  address  for  publication  herein. 


AT  the  request  of  a  very  large  number  of  passen- 
gers on  board  the  "  SCYTHIA,"  these  memorial  pro- 
ceedings have  been  published  in  the  present  form, 
together  with  "  list  of  SALOON  PASSENGERS." 

LEWIS   C.    LILLIE, 

Secretary, 

Nos.  6  and  7  Bowdoin  Square, 
Boston,  Mass. 


LIST  OF  SALOON  PASSENGERS. 


LIST  OF   SALOON  PASSENGERS,   PER  ROYAL  MAIL 
STEAMSHIP  "SCYTHIA," 

(CAPT.  MUKPHY,) 

LIVERPOOL  TO  NEW  YORK,  SEPT.  24,  1881. 


Mr.  A.  Ajuria. 

Miss  Louisa  Bain. 

Mr.  Leon  Backer. 

Mr.  A.  C.  Baldwin,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mr.  George  Barclay,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  H.  J.  Barrett. 
Mr.  E.  L.  Baylies. 
Mrs.  N.  E.  Baylies,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Miss  Baylies. 
Miss  N.  Baylies. 
Mr.  James  J.   Belden,   Syracuse, 

N.Y. 

Mrs.  Jas.  J.  Belden,  Syracuse,  N.Y. 
Hon.   AUGUSTUS   BELMONT    and 

man-servant,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Miss  Benogh. 
Mr.   George   C.   Boden,   Atlantic 

City,  N.J. 

Mr.  S.  Boileau,  Easton,  Penn. 
Mrs.  Boileau,  Easton,  Penn. 
Mrs.  BOLTON,  child,  and  maid. 
Mr.    Christian  Bdrs,  New  York, 

N.Y. 


Mrs.  Christian  Bors,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  B.  Bors,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Rev.  R.  Russell  Booth,  D.D.,  New 

York,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  R.  Russell  Booth,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  A.  Boyle. 
Rev.  F.  W.  Braithwaite,  Stamford, 

Conn. 

Miss  Brandies. 
Mr.  M.  Bray,  Boston,  Mass. 
F.  Brunning,  M.D.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Gen.   CYRUS   BUSSEY,  New    Or- 
leans, La. 

Miss  Butterworth,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Mr.  Franci  C.  Cantine,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  J.  W.  Clark. 
Mr.  George  Clark. 
Mr.  W.  C.  Clark. 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Clarkener,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Miss  Clarkener,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Mr.  J.  D.   Clarkener,   St.   Louis, 

Mo. 


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Mr.  James  Coats. 

Mrs.  Coats. 

Miss  Coats. 

Miss  A.  Coats. 

Miss  Alice  Coats. 

Mr.  S.  Coats. 

Mr.  J.  Coats,  jun. 

Mr.  F.  Coats,  man-servant,  and 
maid-servant. 

Miss  Flora  E.  Cole,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Mr.  A.  E.  Connover,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Mrs.  A.  E.  Connover,  New  York. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Cook. 

Miss  H.  Courtis. 

Dr.  Craig. 

Mrs.  Craig. 

Mr.  O.  Cranz. 

Miss  Cropp. 

Mr.  James  C.  Davis,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  James  C.  Davis,  Boston, 
Mass. 

Miss  Nellie  Davis,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mr.  John  H.  Davis  and  man-ser- 
vant, New  York,  N.Y. 

Mrs.  John  H.  Davis,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Mr.  Horace  Demming,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Mr.  R.  B.  Dobie. 

Mr.  E.  J.  Dougherty. 

Mrs.  Dougherty. 

Mr.  E.  Duvivier. 

Hon.  EDWARD  H.  EAST,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 


Mrs.  EDWARD  H.  EAST,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Mr.  C.  R.  Eaton. 

Mrs.  Eaton. 

Rev.  Dr.  Eccleston. 

Mr.  J.  Clinton  Edgar,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Mrs.  George  W.  Elder  and  maid. 

Miss  L.  W.  Elder. 

Mr.  J.  A.  Fairfax,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Mrs.  C.  J.  Fairfax,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Miss  A.  S.  E.  Fairfax,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Miss  A.  C.  Fairfax,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Mrs.  Fentress. 

Miss  Fentress. 

Miss  Fentress. 

Mrs.  M.  R.  Field. 

A.  Fleming,  M.D.,  Pittsburg, 
Penn. 

Mrs.  A.  Fleming,  Pittsburg,  Penn. 

Mr.  W.  R.  Fortune. 

Mr.  Francis  B.  Foster,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Mr.  Edward  J.  Fox,  Easton,  Penn. 

Mrs.  Edward  J.  Fox,  Easton, 
Penn. 

Miss  Fox,  Easton,  Penn. 

Rev.  John  Fox. 

Mr.  J.  F.  Freeman. 

Mr.  A.  Gailliard. 

Miss  Mary  Glover. 


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Mrs.   A.    Goldsmith,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  Goldsmith. 
Mr.    Harry    B.    Grey,  Brooklyn, 

N.Y. 

Miss  J.  B.  Greene,  Buffalo,  N.Y. 
Mr.  Thomas  Greenlees. 
Mr.  H.  W.  Hammond,  Liverpool, 

Eng. 
Mr.    Sampson   Hanbury,  Meldon, 

Eng. 
Mr.    Alfred    Hardie,    Manitoba, 

Can. 

Miss  Hardie. 
Mrs.  S.  Henry  and  child. 
Miss  F.  Henry. 
Mr.  C.  Henry. 
Hr.  W.  H.  Herriman. 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Herriman. 
Mr.  W.  Hidden. 
Mr.  Edward  Hill. 
Mr.  Fred.  Hill. 
Miss  Hill. 
Miss  Hinshelwood. 
Mr.  C.  J.  Hirst. 
Mr.  N.  B.  Hogg,  jun.,  Pittsburg, 

Penn. 
Mr.  F.  L.  Holmquist,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mrs.  F.  L.  Holmquist,  two  chil- 
dren,   and    maid,    New    York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  F.  J.  Hotop. 
Miss  Meta  Huger. 
Miss  Huguenin. 


Mr.  L.  Hurbutt. 

Miss  L.  Hussey. 

Mr.  J.  S.  Huyler. 

Miss  James. 

Mr.  S.  J.  Jervey. 

Mr.  Henry  W.  Johnson,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs.   Henry    W.   Johnson,   New 

York,  N.Y. 
Mr.   D.    H.  Joostin,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Mr.  A.  D.   JuUiard,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs.  A.  D.  Julliard,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  Horace  Kelley,  Cleveland,  O. 
Mrs.  Horace  Kelley,  Cleveland,  O. 
Rev.  JAMES  M.  KING,  D.D.,  New 

York,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  JAMES  M.  KING,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mrs.  M.  H.  Kinney. 
Miss  Kinney. 
Miss  Lathrop. 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Landon,  three  chil- 
dren, and  governess,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  D.  G.  Leggett. 
Miss  H.  Legorju. 
Mr.  LEWIS  C.  LILLIE,  New  York 

and  Boston. 
Mr.  W.  H.  Lippincott. 
Mr.  E.  H.  Lockyer,  Bristol,  Eng. 
Rev.  M.  J.  MASTERSON,  Peabody, 

Mass. 


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Miss  H.  Mather. 

Mr.  John  McKee,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  M.  T.  McManus. 

Rev.  H.  N.  MCTYEIRE,  Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Miss  MCTYEIRE,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Mr.  Alanlo  Miams,  Bristol,  Eng. 

Mr.  T.  B.  Mills. 

Mrs.  T.  B.  Mills,  three  children, 
and  servant. 

Mr.  A.  Minis,  jun., New  York,  N. Y. 

Mr.  W.  J.  Mitchell. 

Mr.  Peter  Moller,  jun. 

Mrs.  Peter  Moller. 

Miss  Moller. 

Mr.  E.  C.  Moller. 

Miss  Sarah  Morrow,  New  York, 
N.Y. 

Miss  Eliza  Mote. 

Alexander  Muirhead,  M.D.,  Lon- 
don, Eng. 

Mr.  Henry  James  Muirhead,  Lon- 
don, Eng. 

Miss  L.  M.  Nathurst. 

Mr.  William  James  Neill,  New 
York,  N.Y. 

Mrs.  William  James  Neill,  New 
York,  N.Y. 

Rev.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN,  D.D., 
New  York,  N.Y. 

Mrs.  JOHN  P.  NEWMAN,  New 
York,  N.Y. 

Hon.  MARCUS  P.  NORTON  and 
man-servant,  New  York  and 
Boston. 


Miss    Carrie    T.   Newman,    New 

York,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  T.  B.  Oakley. 
Miss  N.  O'Donohue. 
Sister  M.  J.  O'Donohue. 
Sister  M.  S.  O'Malley. 
Mr.  J.  B.  Palmer,  Concord,  N.H. 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Palmer,  Concord,  N.H. 
Mrs.  G.  H.  Palmer,  Concord,  N.H. 
Miss  A.  Parker. 
Mr.  M.  Paton. 
Hon  CHARLES  A.  PEABODY,  New 

York,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  CHARLES  A.  PEABODY,  New 

York,  N.Y. 

Professor  J.  M.  Peirce. 
Mr.  C.  Pennington. 
Mr.  C.  C.  Perkins. 
Mr.  C.  B.  Perkins. 
Mr.  J.  Lamb  Perry. 
Miss  L.  Phillips,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Dr.  H.  Pickney. 

Mrs.  H.  C.  Plass,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Mr.  T.  T.  Randolph. 
Miss  L.  Randolph. 
Miss  E.  Randolph. 
Miss  L.  T.  Randolph. 
Mr.  J.  H.  Richmond. 
Mr.    C.    B.    Robinson,    London, 

Eng. 
John  A.  Rogers,  M.D.,  Paterson, 

N.J. 

Mr.  John  G.  Rollins,  London,  Eng. 
Mrs.   John    G.   Rollins,   London, 

Eng. 


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Miss  Rollins,  London,  Eng. 

Miss  Rollins,  London,  Eng. 

Hon.  U.  M.  ROSE,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Mr.  J.  Rosenthal,  New  York,  N.Y. 

Mrs.  J.  Rosenthal,  New  York,  N.Y. 

Miss  Rosenthal,  New  York,  N.Y. 

Mr.  John  L.  Ross,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Mrs.  John  L.  Ross,  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Mr.  Denham  Ross. 

Miss  Rubino  and  maid. 

Mr.  Rubino. 

Mr.  Stillwell  H.  Russell,  Austin, 
Tex. 

Miss  Ryder. 

Mr.  L.  Sabriskie. 

Mr.  N.  E.  Sainsbury. 

Madame  Santin. 

Rev.  Horace  D.  Sassaman,  Erwin- 
na,  Penn. 

Miss  Sawyer. 

Mr.  William  J.  Sawyer,  Allegheny 
City,  Penn. 

Mrs.  John  Scott,  child,  and  maid. 

Mr.  E.  Shannon,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Mr.  S.  J.  Sheil. 

Miss  N.  Shoemaker. 

Miss  M.  E.  Shoemaker. 

Miss  B.  Shoemaker. 

Mr.  A.  Shrewsbury. 

Mr.  E.  Siegel. 

Mr.  J.  ISillem,  Amsterdam,  Hol- 
land. 

Mr.  I.  W.  Spiegelberg. 

Miss  H.  Stern,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Miss  Fannie  Stern,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Mr.  Byam  K.  Stevens,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs.  Byam  K.  Stevens,  New  York, 

N.Y. 

Mr.  K.  Stevens,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Mr.  Hugh  A.  Stirling. 
Mr.  J.  H.  Strahan. 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Strahan. 
Miss  Strahan. 
Mr.  T.  W.  Strong. 
Miss  M.  Stump. 
Mr.  R.  B.  Symington,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs.  R.  B.  Symington,  child,  and 

maid. 
Mr.  Richard  Synnot,  Melbourne, 

Victoria,  Australia. 
Mr.  Daniel  Talmage,  New  York, 

N.Y. 
Rev.   D.   A.   Tivenan,  Brooklyn, 

N.Y. 

Dr.  H.  Tuholske. 
Mrs.  H.  Tuholske,  child,  and  maid. 
Mr.  Edmund  Tweedale. 
Mr.  C.  T.  H.  Vagt. 
Mr.  L.  Vasquez. 
Mr.  E.  Vedder. 

Mrs.  E.  Vedder  and  two  children. 
Mr.  J.  W.  Vernon. 
Professor  J.  M.  Van  Vleck. 
Hon.  F.  A.  WARD,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  F.  A.  WARD,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 
Miss  M.  Ward,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 
Lieut.-Col.  Wickhain. 


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Mr.  Alan  Williams. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Wiixfield,  Beaver  Dam, 

Wis. 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Winfield,  Beaver  Dam, 

Wis. 
Mr.  T.  Wolfe,  jtm.,  New  Orleans, 

La. 
Mrs.  Womersly. 


Mrs.  Woodside. 
Miss  Woodside. 
Mr.  B.  W.  Woodward,  Lawrence, 

Kansas. 

Mrs.  B.  W.  Woodward. 
Mrs.  Wyckoff. 
Miss  H.  Yorke. 
Mies  M.  Yorke. 


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